There is some controversy over the proposed introduction of a domain (.mobi) aimed at sites designed for mobile devices. The Device Independence Working Group (DIWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has opposed the idea on the basis that the Web is supposed to be device agnostic and there is no clear way to define a mobile device in the proposal. (ie, is a laptop a “mobile device”?)
“If approved, proposal officials promise a virtual realm specific to the needs of mobile device users who are limited to the amount of information they can fit (and process) on their screens. It will also be used as the platform to offer domain-based telephone identifiers or, more simply put, dialing a phone number like “firstname.lastname@nokia.mobi.”
Everyone agrees there is more work to be done on the proposal (which is fair enough), but I think people are worried that the modified proposal will be accepted as a fait accompli whether it is a valuable addition to the top-level domain space or not.
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