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Open Mobile Alliance

OMA SpecWorks, previously the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), is a standards organization which develops open, international technical standards for the mobile phone industry. It is a nonprofit Non-governmental organization (NGO), not a formal government-sponsored standards organization as is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU): a forum for industry stakeholders to agree on common specifications for products and services.

Abbreviation

OMA

June 2002 (2002-06)

IPSO Alliance; March 27, 2018 (2018-03-27)

San Diego, California, United States

Wireless vendors, information technology businesses, mobile operators, application & content providers

English

Seth Newberry

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History[edit]

The OMA was created in June 2002 as an answer to the proliferation of industry forums each dealing with a few application protocols: WAP Forum (focused on browsing and device provisioning protocols), the Wireless Village (focused on instant messaging and presence), The SyncML Initiative (focused on data synchronization), the Location Interoperability Forum, the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum, and the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum. Each of these forums had its bylaws, its decision-taking procedures, its release schedules, and in some instances there was some overlap in the specifications, causing duplication of work.


Members include traditional wireless industry players such as equipment and mobile systems manufacturers (Ericsson, ZTE, Nokia, Qualcomm, Rohde & Schwarz) and mobile operators (AT&T, NTT Docomo, Orange, T-Mobile, Verizon), and also software vendors (Gemalto, Mavenir and others).[1]


In March, 2018, it merged with the IPSO Alliance to form OMA SpecWorks.[2]


Related standards bodies include: 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).


Its mission is to provide Interoperability of services across countries, operators and mobile terminals. The OMA only standardises applicative protocols; OMA specifications are intended to work with any cellular network technologies being used to provide networking and data transport. These networking technology are specified by outside parties. In particular, OMA specifications for a given function are the same with either GSM, UMTS, or CDMA2000 networks. Adherence to the standards is entirely voluntary; the OMA does not have a mandative role.. OMA members that own intellectual property rights (e.g. patents) on technologies that are essential to realizing a specification agree in advance to provide licenses to their technology on "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing" terms to other members. OMA is incorporated in California, United States.

Browsing specifications, now named Browser and Content, formerly named ; in current version, these specifications rely essentially on XHTML Mobile Profile

WAP browsing

(MMS) specifications

Multimedia Messaging Service

OMA DRM specifications for

Digital Rights Management

(OMA IMPS) specification, which is a system for instant messaging on mobile phones; formerly named Wireless Village

OMA Instant Messaging and Presence Service

OMA SIMPLE IM instant messaging based on (SIP) SIMPLE

Session Initiation Protocol

OMA CAB Converged Address Book, a social address book service standard

OMA CPM Converged IP Messaging, the underlying enabler for

Rich Communication Services

OMA Lock and Wipe (LAWMO) specifications for those functions

OMA Lightweight M2M (LwM2M) specifications for machine to machine functions

OMA LWM2M

(OMA CP) specification for provisioning

OMA Client Provisioning

OMA Data Synchronization (OMA DS) specification for using SyncML

data synchronization

(OMA DM) specification for mobile device management using SyncML

OMA Device Management

specification for Mobile Broadcast Services

OMA BCAST

OMA (RME) specification

Rich Media Environment

OMA OpenCMAPI Connection Management APIs

[3]

OMA PoC specification for Over Cellular (PoC)

Push to talk

specification for presence based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) SIMPLE

OMA Presence SIMPLE

OMA Service Environment

Firmware update

FUMO

(SUPL),[4] an IP-based service for assisted GPS on handsets

Secure User Plane Location Protocol

(MLP), an IP-based protocol for obtaining the position/location of mobile handset

Mobile Location Protocol

Wireless Application Protocol 1 (WAP1), 5-layer stack of protocols

[5]

OMA LOCSIP Location in SIP/IP Core

[6]

(SCOMO), allows a management authority to perform software management on a remote device

Software Component Management Object

The OMA maintains many specifications, including:


The OMA specifications inspired or formed the base for the following:

(LiPS)

Linux Phone Standards Forum

LiMo Foundation

Content Management Interface

Open Handset Alliance

Mobile Platform

3GPP

(ETSI)

European Telecommunications Standards Institute

List of wireless router firmware projects

Mobile Device Management

List of Mobile Device Management Software

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