Subject: Re: RE: WAP

From: "Manohar Menon" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:50:41 +0800

dear folks

 Well as it s a fortune to join the WAP forum, and the most i can get from vendors are the marketing details and limited sets of technical details, therefore can anyone of you provide some background on how implementation of WAP and taken into consideration of future roll outs of GPRS.

Thanks and Best Regards

Manohar Menon
System Engineer
FNPP - DECS
Subang Hitech
Tel :+6 03  580 1697 
email: [email-masked]
Fax : +6 03 580 2003

>>> Lloyd Wood <[email-masked]> 12/16 8:14 PM >>>
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 [email-masked] wrote:

>     [ From: <[email-masked]> ]
>     [ Date: 21:43:30 (+0000) 15 December 1999  ]
> 
>     > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Nagappa, Sathish wrote:
> 
>     > > More geared towards corporate
>     > > memberships than individuals, it looks like.
>     > 
>     > Well, how many individuals own cellphone manufacturing plants?
>     >  
>     > L.
> 
> Duh ! You do not need to own a cellphone manufacturing plant to
> implement the WAP standard for a WAP server, or do you ?

No. (You probably need to own a cellphone manufacturing plant to think
implementing the WAP standard for a WAP server is a good idea, though,
and so that you're less likely to be caught out by developments in
the standards. If you read the WAP documents at
http://www.wapforum.com/what/technical.htm you'll see e.g.
'Disclaimer: this document is subject to change without notice' on
(self-)approved standards. Encouraging.)

> Going by the same logic, W3C, then should start asking for $50000,
> with the reasoning that not every individual has the need for a
> webserver. 

It does, as Martin points out.

> IMNHO, any standard should be open and freely accessible to anyone
> who wants to implement it. 

ISO would beg to differ. Not free, and input is heavily constrained.

L.

there's an 'as in bloodflow to the neck' line in here somewhere.

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