ext Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Sure there are. Here's a direct quote from the .mobi proposal:
Businesses and consumers that utilise mobile devices will be able to take advantage of a wide range of Internet services and content under the mTLD that have been specifically tailored for access and use by mobile devices. The sponsored TLD provides a clearly recognisable mobile label to the services and content, indicating that they will be easy and convenient to use with mobile devices. By choice of suitable mobile-specific technologies, the service offering can be adapted to mobile-specific characteristics, such as the limitations of mobile networks and devices (throughput, temporary signal loss, etc), which will result in a better user experience for those services.
I find it hard to interpret that text in any other fashion -- they want to describe end-to-end protocols by DNS name.
I don't quite see what the difference here is to .edu for example. Isn't this indeed very similar to how the .edu provides a "clearly recognisable" label for educational services and content?
Cheers, Aki
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