WAP support is already available from
vendors (Phone.com, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, Sprint) and many cell-phone
manufacturers have either begun building these features into new products
or announced plans to do so. WAP itself was developed in the WAP
Forum, a consortium of wireless vendors.
Not everyone is delighted with WAP and its many components, however. Rohit Khare's W* Effect Considered
Harmful, examined the protocol stack of WAP 1.1 and found problems with every layer.
Khare's analysis rejects the exceptionalism of the wireless vendors and calls for standards more
consistent with existing Internet and Web protocols.