Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Open Mobile
Alliance (OMA) is a standards body which develops open standards for the
mobile phone industry. The OMA was created in June 2002 as an answer to
the proliferation of industry forums each dealing with a few application
protocols: the 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. The OMA was created to gather these initiatives
under a single umbrella.
