- From: Tom Worthington <tom.worthington@tomw.net.au>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:23:41 +1000
- To: www-mobile <www-mobile@w3c.org>
At 11:12 10/04/01 +0900, Kazuhiro Kitagawa wrote: >... Are there any person who are interested in reviewing the WAP specs ? ... Given the lack of take-up of the current version, it may not be worth working on WAP 2. Instead the effort could be put into using accepted Internet and web standards for mobile devices. A politically palatable way to do this might be to abandon WAP 2 and create WAP 3 as a set of profiles of web and Internet standards for mobile devices (MPEG similarly went from 2 to 4, skipping 3). WAP 3 would avoid features which would be difficult to implement on mobile devices, but not introduce any new technology. As an example WML would be abandoned and XHTML used, exploiting accessibility features to work on mobile devices. Backward compatibility with legacy WAP 1 technology would be by the use of gateways and special servers. This may seem a radical step, but some years ago I was working for the Australian Department of Defence on the implementation of GOSIP (Government Open System Interconnection Profile). This was a set of ISO standards intended to do officially what the Internet did unofficially. After many years work we abandoned GOSIP and decided just to use IP, as it worked better. WAP similarly may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but it is time to get on a do something more useful. Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington@tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150 Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088 714 309 http://www.tomw.net.au PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617 Visiting Fellow, Computer Science, Australian National University Publications Director & Past President, Australian Computer Society -------------------------------------------------------------------- Issues in the Wireless Internet: http://www.tomw.net.au/2001/wi.html
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