NAC: An Architecture for Multimedia Content Adaptation for Mobile Devices

In the current web infrastructure, access to content is achieved from a variety of terminals such as desktop PCs, smart phones, set top boxes and personal digital assistants (PDAs). The different capabilities of these terminals led to the development of a variety of parallel webs each one accommodating a particular device feature. This situation poses a serious problem to web designers and maintainers since every piece of information needs to be authored for every type of terminal with the associated protocols. Our research work in the WAM project at INRIA is an attempt to unify web access to information with a more flexible and negotiated approach.