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To: gdichaz who wrote (9943)	5/12/2000 1:36:00 AM
From: cfoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Does WAP add any useful element ... Although you asked engineer to addressed this question, I am going to take the liberty to post something from Forbes ASAP of 2/21/00 that addresses WAP directly. It was from an interview with Gordon Moore(of Moore's Law) and Bob Metcalfe (of Metcalfe's Law about network effects). Metcalfe said about WAP: "According to Metcalfe's Law, when some application of networking becomes so specialized it needs proprietary protocols incompatible with other networks, that is generally a bad idea. We're having that argument right now with wireless. The wireless networking people have developed their own protocol called WAP... They are making the argument that the wireless media is so different from all other media, and little cellular phones are so different from PCs, that they really need a protocol of their own. I'm hoping Metcalfe's Law helps them decide that's a really bad idea. They had better be sure the wireless infrastructure they are building can inter-operate with the Internet, or else they are going to lose the benefits of that quadratic gain in value."