Going Boldly Where No Packet Sniffer Has Gone Before
Roadkills-R-Us
and the other environmentally sensitive, high technology
vendors who brought ``Scratch N Sniff'' to a web
browser near you, are about to do it again, with
a greatly enhanced Olfactory Transport Protocol - OTPv2.
OTPv2, as planned, will actually have two parts:
This effort, spearheaded by the ISO and collectively
known as Odeur Specificatione Internationale (OSI),
is generally considered too unweildy to survive.
A Hyper-Odor Transport Protocol (HOTP) is also
under development.
Further information will be available at
http://www.iso.org/
after their site recovers from an explosion at their skunkworks.
However, both of these efforts may be moot due to
the efforts of the O Consortium.
OOTP is a ``physical'' approach - the odor will be
objectively defined in terms of PSI (Perfume,
Stench, Intensity), which define
the actual odor without respect to how one reacts
to it. SOTP will be abstracted at a level higher;
a ``virtual'' odor protocol will define things in
subjective terms, allowing for customization,
device choice, internationalization, etc.