OPEN MOBILE ALLIANCE

The mission of the Open Mobile Alliance is to grow the market for the entire mobile industry by removing the barriers to global user adoption and by ensuring seamless application interoperability while allowing businesses to compete through innovation and differentiation.

The charter for the Open Mobile Alliance is to:

Deliver responsive and high-quality open standards and specifications based upon market and customer requirements Establish centers of excellence for best practices and conduct interoperability testing (IOT), including multi-standard interoperability to ensure seamless user experience Create and promote common industry view on an architectural framework Be the catalyst for the consolidation of standards fora; working in conjunction with other existing standards organizations and groups such as IETF, 3GPP, 3GPP2, W3C, JCP
The principles of the Open Mobile Alliance are:

Products and services are based on open, global standards, protocols and interfaces and are not locked to proprietary technologies The applications layer is bearer agnostic (examples: GSM, GPRS, EDGE, CDMA, UMTS) The architecture framework and service enablers are independent of Operating Systems (OS) Applications and platforms are interoperable, providing seamless geographic and inter-generational roaming