WWW group, Internet inventor bash industry's plans for .mobi listing.(News)

RCR Wireless News, May, 2004

Byline: MIKE DANO

Tim Berners-Lee, widely credited with creating the World Wide Web, has spoken out against the wireless industry's attempts to create a ".mobi'' mobile-specific Internet domain listing. Further, the World Wide Web Consortium's Technical Advisory Group echoed Berners-Lee's criticism's by voting to endorse his position.

"Dividing the Web into information destined for different devices, or different classes of user, or different classes of information, breaks the Web in a fundamental way,'' wrote Berners-Lee in a letter published on the W3C's Web site. The W3C develops Internet technologies and advises on Internet standards. "The Web must operate independently of the hardware, software or network used to access it, of the...

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