]
] What is this initiative you ask? A new wireless protocol?
] A new wireless association? Not exactly! Alan Harper is
] the group strategy director at Vodafone, one the world's
] largest mobile telecom operators and he is talking about
] a recent bid to ICANN for a new unspecified mobile
] top-level domain. That's right a "mobile TLD" or mTLD.
] Nine software, telecom, and mobile handset heavyweights
] (3, GSM Association, HP, Microsoft, Nokia, Orange,
] Samsung, Sun, and Vodafone) have signed a memorandum of
] understanding to jointly set up a new Internet names
] registry company to issue domain names for wireless
] devices, in an attempt to boost mobile services.

Hmmm...

Industry Giants Embarking on Internet Frontiers