> TSIGARIDAS PANAGIOTIS wrote:
>
> I believe, I found part of the following text in WAP Forum's WEB-pages.
> However, I think the answer -from business and technology point of view-
> is simple;
>
> Is WAP mobile Internet ? Yes and NO
>
> WAP is using existing Internet standards. The WAP architecture was
> designed to enable standard Internet servers to provide services to
> wireless devices.
In other words - a gateway?
If so, then it is a gateway to non-internet devices.
They are not just disconnected devices. Many people have laptops
that are connected then disconnected from an ISP. The mobile
phones use a different protocol suite to perform their operations.
I am not saying that is bad. Just that it seems to me to they are
saying that they are providing a gateway to the internet for non-internet
devices. Otherwise is all they would need is a bridge or router.
> In addition, when communicating with wireless devices,
> WAP uses many Internet standards such as XML, UDP and IP. The WAP
> wireless protocols are based on Internet standards such as HTTP and TLS
> but have been optimised for the unique constraints of the wireless
> environment.
And much email is still sent in ASCII (IEEE I think), that does mean
that all internet email systems are IEEE devices.
> Internet standards such as HTML, HTTP, TLS and TCP are inefficient over
> mobile networks, requiring:
> ...
Orthogonal to the issue here - "is it the internet"?
