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{{Short description|Mobile phone standards organization}} {{Infobox organization |name = Open Mobile Alliance |image = OMA logo.png |caption = |map = |map_caption = |abbreviation = OMA |motto = |formation = {{Start date and age|2002|06}} |dissolved = |merger = [[IPSO Alliance]]; {{End date and age|2018|03|27}} |type = [[Nonprofit organization|Nonprofit]] [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]] |status = <!-- legal status or description (charity, foundation ?) --> |purpose = [[International standard|International]] [[technical standard]]s |headquarters = [[San Diego]], [[California]], United States |location = |coords = |membership = Wireless vendors, [[information technology]] businesses, mobile operators, application & content providers |language = English |leader_title = General Manager |leader_name = Seth Newberry |main_organ = |parent_organization = |affiliations = |num_staff = 143 |num_volunteers = |budget = |key_people = |website = {{URL|www.openmobilealliance.org}} |remarks = }} '''OMA SpecWorks''', previously the '''Open Mobile Alliance''' ('''OMA'''), is a [[standards organization]] which develops [[Open standard|open]], [[International standard|international]] [[technical standard]]s for the [[mobile phone]] industry. It is a [[Nonprofit organization|nonprofit]] [[Non-governmental organization]] (NGO), not a formal government-sponsored standards organization as is the [[International Telecommunication Union]] (ITU): a forum for industry [[Stakeholder (corporate)|stakeholders]] to agree on common [[Specification (technical standard)|specifications]] for products and services. ==History== The OMA was created in June 2002 as an answer to the proliferation of [[industry forum]]s 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 SA|Orange]], [[T-Mobile International AG|T-Mobile]], [[Verizon]]), and also software vendors ([[Gemalto]], [[Mavenir]] and others).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://openmobilealliance.org/membership/current-members |title=Current Members |website=Open Mobile Alliance |language=en-US |access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref> In March, 2018, it merged with the [[IPSO Alliance]] to form OMA SpecWorks.<ref>{{Cite news |title= A Better Way to Define Industry Standards: OMA SpecWorks Creates IoT Standards, But Also Redefines the Game |date= March 28, 2018 |author= Jim Turley |url= https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-better-way-to-define-industry-standards/ |access-date= October 29, 2021 }}</ref> 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. [[patent]]s) on technologies that are essential to realizing a specification agree in advance to provide [[license]]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]]; in current version, these specifications rely essentially on [[XHTML Mobile Profile]] * [[Multimedia Messaging Service]] (MMS) specifications * OMA DRM specifications for [[digital rights management]] * [[OMA Instant Messaging and Presence Service]] (OMA IMPS) specification, which is a system for instant messaging on mobile phones; formerly named [[Wireless Village]] * OMA SIMPLE IM instant messaging based on [[Session Initiation Protocol]] (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 CP) specification for [[provisioning (telecommunications)|provisioning]] * OMA Data Synchronization (OMA DS) specification for [[data synchronization]] using [[SyncML]] * [[OMA Device Management]] (OMA DM) specification for [[mobile device management]] using [[SyncML]] * [[OMA BCAST]] specification for Mobile Broadcast Services * OMA [[Rich Media Environment]] (RME) specification * OMA OpenCMAPI Connection Management APIs<ref>[http://openmobilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Presentation-of-OMA-Open-CM-API.pdf Slides] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062624/http://openmobilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Presentation-of-OMA-Open-CM-API.pdf |date=2016-03-04}} slides</ref> * OMA PoC specification for [[Push to talk]] Over Cellular (PoC) * [[OMA Presence SIMPLE]] specification for presence based on [[Session Initiation Protocol]] (SIP) SIMPLE * [[OMA Service Environment]] * [[FUMO]] Firmware update * [[Assisted GPS#Standards|Secure User Plane Location Protocol]] (SUPL),<ref name="UPL3.0">{{cite news |title=User Plane Location Protocol v3.0 |url=http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release/SUPL/V3_0-20110920-C/OMA-TS-ULP-V3_0-20110920-C.pdf |publisher=OMA |access-date=7 October 2017}}</ref> an IP-based service for [[assisted GPS]] on handsets * [[Mobile Location Protocol]] (MLP), an IP-based protocol for obtaining the position/location of mobile handset * Wireless Application Protocol 1 (WAP1), 5-layer stack of protocols<ref>[http://dret.net/glossary/wap1 dret.net Glossary] WAP1</ref> * OMA LOCSIP Location in SIP/IP Core<ref>{{cite web |title=LOCSIP V1.0 The Open Mobile Alliance |url=http://technical.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/technical-information/release-program/current-releases/locsip-v1-0 |website=technical.openmobilealliance.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009021143/http://technical.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/technical-information/release-program/current-releases/locsip-v1-0 |archive-date=9 October 2016 |access-date=20 May 2016}}</ref> *[[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 [[ETSI]] 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 [[Ontology (information science)|ontologies]]. == See also == * [[Linux Phone Standards Forum]] (LiPS) * [[LiMo Foundation]] * [[Content Management Interface]] * [[Open Handset Alliance]] * [[Mobile Platform]] * [[3GPP]] * [[European Telecommunications Standards Institute]] (ETSI) * [[List of wireless router firmware projects]] * [[Mobile Device Management]] * [[List_of_Mobile_Device_Management_software| List of Mobile Device Management Software]] == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{Official website|www.openmobilealliance.org}} {{Open Mobile Alliance standards}} {{Mobile phones}} [[Category:Open Mobile Alliance standards| ]] [[Category:Mobile telecommunications standards]] [[Category:Open standards]] [[Category:Telecommunications organizations]] [[Category:Business organizations based in the United States]] [[Category:Mobile phone industry]]
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