OMA SpecWorks, previously the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is a standards organization which develops

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, international

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s for the

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industry. It is a

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(NGO), not a formal government-sponsored standards organization as is the

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(ITU): a forum for industry stakeholders to agree on common

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for products and services.

History

The OMA was created in June 2002 as an answer to the proliferation of

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s each dealing with a few application protocols: WAP Forum (focused on browsing and device provisioning protocols), the

Wireless Village Wireless Village is a set of specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence services. It is intended to be a standard for cellphones and mobile devices to use these services across platforms. Many wireless phones now include mobile inst ...

(focused on instant messaging and presence),

The SyncML Initiative The SyncML Initiative, Ltd. was a non-profit corporation formed by a group of companies who co-operated to produce an open standard for data synchronization and device management. Prior to SyncML, data synchronization and device management had bee ...

(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 (

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) and mobile operators (

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, NTT Docomo, Orange, T-Mobile,

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), and also software vendors (

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, Mavenir and others). In March, 2018, it merged with the

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to form OMA SpecWorks. Related standards bodies include: 3rd Generation Partnership Project ( 3GPP),

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(3GPP2),

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(IETF) and the

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(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,

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, or

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networks. Adherence to the standards is entirely voluntary; the OMA does not have a mandative role.. OMA members that own

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rights (e.g.

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s) on technologies that are essential to realizing a specification agree in advance to provide

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s to their technology on "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing" terms to other members. OMA is incorporated in California, United States.

Standard specifications

The OMA maintains many specifications, including: * Browsing specifications, now named ''Browser and Content'', formerly named

WAP browsing Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network. A WAP browser is a web browser for mobile devices such as mobile phones that use the protocol. Introduced in 1999, WAP achieve ...

; in current version, these specifications rely essentially on

XHTML Mobile Profile XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML MP) is a hypertextual computer language standard designed specifically for mobile phones and other resource-constrained devices. It is an XHTML document type defined by the Open Mobile Alliance. XHTML-MP is derived fr ...

Multimedia Messaging Service Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from a mobile phone over a cellular network. Users and providers may refer to such a message as a PXT, a picture message, or a multimedia ...

(MMS) specifications * OMA DRM specifications for

Digital Rights Management Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM) such as access control technologies can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. ...

OMA Instant Messaging and Presence Service The OMA Instant Messaging and Presence Service (IMPS) is an Open Mobile Alliance enabler for Instant Messaging and Presence. The Wireless Village consortium developed the first cut of the specifications. After Wireless Village was merged with OM ...

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

* OMA SIMPLE IM instant messaging based on

Session Initiation Protocol The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol used for initiating, maintaining, and terminating communication sessions that include voice, video and messaging applications. SIP is used in Internet telephony, in private IP telepho ...

(SIP) SIMPLE * 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) OMA LWM2M specifications for machine to machine functions *

OMA Client Provisioning 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 governm ...

(OMA CP) specification for provisioning * OMA Data Synchronization (OMA DS) specification for data synchronization using SyncML *

OMA Device Management OMA Device Management is a device management protocol specified by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) Working Group and the Data Synchronization (DS) Working Group. The current approved specification of OMA DM is version 1.2.1, ...

(OMA DM) specification for

mobile device management Mobile device management (MDM) is the administration of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and laptops. MDM is usually implemented with the use of a third-party product that has management features for particular vendors of m ...

using SyncML * OMA BCAST specification for Mobile Broadcast Services * OMA

Rich Media Environment 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 governme ...

(RME) specification * OMA OpenCMAPI Connection Management APIs * OMA PoC specification for Push to talk Over Cellular (PoC) * OMA Presence SIMPLE specification for presence based on

(SIP) SIMPLE * OMA Service Environment *

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Firmware update * Secure User Plane Location Protocol (SUPL), an IP-based service for assisted GPS on handsets *

Mobile Location Protocol The Mobile Location Protocol (MLP) is an application-level protocol for receiving the position of Mobile Stations (MS: mobile phones, wireless devices, etc.) independent of underlying network technology. The MLP serves as the interface between a Lo ...

(MLP), an IP-based protocol for obtaining the position/location of mobile handset * Wireless Application Protocol 1 (WAP1), 5-layer stack of protocols * OMA LOCSIP Location in SIP/IP Core * Software Component Management Object (SCOMO), allows a management authority to perform software management on a remote device The OMA specifications inspired or formed the base for the following: * NGSI-LD is an API and information model specified by

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based (with permission) on OMA specifications NGSI-09 and NGSI-10, extending them to provide bindings and to formally use property graphs, with node and relationship (edge) types that may play the role of labels in formerly-mentioned models ''and'' support semantic referencing by inheriting classes defined in shared ontologies.

References

External links

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History

Standard specifications

See also

References

External links