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advance, we now have fourth generation (4G) services. These boast new<br />

promises for mobile internetwork services, <strong>and</strong> currently are successfully<br />

implemented in several places around the world.<br />

Based on these forecasts, wireless service providers, manufacturers of h<strong>and</strong>held<br />

devices, <strong>and</strong> software development companies see a huge new market of<br />

information-hungry users.<br />

In this chapter, we discuss the WAP version 2 st<strong>and</strong>ard. WAP version 2 brings<br />

together open Internet st<strong>and</strong>ards <strong>and</strong> mobile networking as it adds optimized<br />

support for <strong>TCP</strong> <strong>and</strong> HTTP, Extended Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML),<br />

<strong>and</strong> Transport Layer Security.<br />

The WAP Forum was founded in June 1997, by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, <strong>and</strong><br />

Phone.com. It has drafted a global wireless specification for all wireless<br />

networks. The forum contributed to various industry groups, such as wireless<br />

service providers, h<strong>and</strong>set manufacturers, infrastructure providers, <strong>and</strong> software<br />

developers. The forum has also provided the specifications to st<strong>and</strong>ards bodies<br />

such as ARIB, CDG, ECMA, ETSI, TIA, <strong>and</strong> W3C.<br />

The WAP Forum consolidated into the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) <strong>and</strong> does not<br />

exist as an independent organization.<br />

Most of the content of this chapter has been extracted from the OMA<br />

specifications.<br />

For more information about WAP specification work, refer to:<br />

http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/wap/wapindex.html<br />

At this Web site, you can find the latest work <strong>and</strong> all of the specification<br />

documents.<br />

1 Visant Strategies, Inc. (September 2005)<br />

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