GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

Fri Sep 30 12:33:13 UTC 2005

>> It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either
>> A closed service  available solely over  the gprs network

* brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk (Brandon Butterworth) [Fri 30 Sep 2005, 12:55 CEST]:
>Until the users want to access the same stuff from their 
>PC and they petition for it to be in the public root too
>
>To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to 
>work like internet

You are misunderstanding.  The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure 
in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is.  End users 
have no way of interacting with this infrastructure (beyond turning on 
their phones outside their home country).

When a user "surfs the internet" from their handheld device they get the 
real Internet, not some walled garden that has .gprs.

	-- Niels.