3GPP Work Item description

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Feature:     Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) enhancements

A need for further elaboration and new functionality of MMS is identified. Therefore the following items are planned to be included in the expected work on MMS

Further MMS work targets the following areas which might require changes to 3GPP TS 22.140:

• Consider and accommodate the needs of 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)

• Consider and investigate enhancements to functionalities of the MMS Relay/Server and MMS UA/UE reference point (MM1)

• Consider and investigate enhancements to MMS Relay/Server to MMS Relay/Server reference point (MM4)

• Investigate and identify support for enhanced interworking and transcoding issues

• Investigate and identify support for enhancements of terminal capability negotiation mechanism to ensure terminal interoperability

• Investigate and identify support for alternative User Agent capabilities for MMS

• Investigate and identify support for detail description of User Profile mechanisms

• Investigate and identify enhancements of USIM and USAT aspects of MMS

• Investigate and identify support for security and privacy enhancements

• Investigate and identify support for Digital Rights Management

• Investigate and identify support for enhanced charging methods 

• Investigate and identify support for enhancements of the interworking with external messaging systems

• Consider and investigate use of 3GPP presence service by MMS

• Investigate and identify support for enhancements of the interworking with VAS applications

• Investigate and identify support for enhancements for streaming

• Investigate and identify support for enhancements for addressing

• Investigate and identify support for enhancement of network based storage model in MMSE

• Investigate and identify support for enhancements for media types/formats and multimedia presentation (work expected to be done by SA4)

• Investigate and identify support for defining over-the-air provisioning of MMS

• Investigate and identify support for interaction with legacy handsets

Work to be led by T2.