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Speaking as a website developer and someone who actually pines for some of his sites to be mobile friendly out of the box, I think that this will be a good thing. For one, it will make it just a touh easier for mobile browsers to be locked out of the regular .com web and be filtered thru the .mobi version.
THe one who made the comment about who makes the standards for mobile versions. There is already a Wc3 standard for creating mobile sites, and its basically involves using CSS and ems to make sure that no matter what mobile screen is there, things would look proportional. As for current sites who dont/wont make time for mobile versions, one can make a handheld.css file and then use the meta direct to make sure that when viewed on a handheld that the site will always look great in mobile. I am working on this latter piece for the Mobile Ministry Magazine site that I do and aside from the occasional non standards playing browsers on the side of handhelds, it does work ok. Maybe we will soon get to the point that all designers will use smarter CSS and div buillding to make sites work instead of just flash (yes that was a barb at myself and my personal site which is all Flash)
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