sm

and what will ebay.mobi correspond to ? ebay.com or ebay.co.uk or ebay.com.au or ebay.ph or ebay.pl .... ?

the more likely scenario will be ebay.co.uk/mobile, ebay.com.au/mobile, ebay.com/mobile etc

TLDs need not be created to distinguish between distinct data delivery formats. That's what a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) could be used for, and would do the job sufficiently well in this case.

then there's the issue of sharing bookmarks and other meta data between your PC and your handheld. Since, the .mobi version of a site would have a different URI for the same content (albeit formatted differently), the sharing of bookmarks, OPML lists, RSS feed URIs etc wouldnt be possible because there would be 2 URIs referencing the same content. This problem of content formatting and presentation could be tackled via better browser softwares in tandem with different styling sheets that would be presented depending upon the device being used to access the content, rather than different URIs for the same content.

taking the all too common scenario of bookmarking webpages on del.icio.us, I would love to share these bookmarks across all devices that I use to access the Internet from, and share this data (which is nothing but a collection of tagged URIs) across all devices, without the need to have multiple URIs referencing the same data (though presented differently).

These issues will not surface in the early adoption phase of this TLD insofar as devlopment goes... but later on, when folks realize that a piece of content is no longer referenceable by a single homogeneous URI nor shareable across .mobi-compatible and .mobi-incompatible devices, issues will start surfacing.

It's not a question of which corporations support this initiative and which dont.. it's a question of device independent content with a 1-1 correspondence with an internet resource and it's identifier, irrespective of how the content is accessed and how it is displayed and formatted.


regards,
sm

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