Ajai Malhotra Stockholm (Nairobi; 1982); contribution to the drafting of the 1990 London Amendments to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, Convention on Biological Diversity, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Statement of Principles on Forests, and Agenda 21; and participation in the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro; 1992). He was a member of the UNEP group of legal experts to examine the concept of "Common Concern of Mankind" in relation to global environmental issues. He was Counsellor (Information) at the Indian Embassy, Moscow, from 1993–1996, returning to
Wireless Application Protocol protocol design was appropriate. Some have suggested that the bandwidth-sparing simple interface of Gopher would be a better match for mobile phones and Personal digital assistants (PDAs). The initial design of WAP specifically aimed at protocol independence across a range of different protocols (SMS, IP over PPP over a circuit switched bearer, IP over GPRS, etc.). This has led to a protocol considerably more complex than an approach directly over IP might have caused. Most controversial, especially for many from the IP side, was the design of WAP over IP. WAP's transmission layer protocol, WTP, uses its own retransmission mechanisms