1. OMA Perspective ETSI SOS Interop II Meeting
Jari Alvinen
Chairman of the Board, Open Mobile Alliance
Sophia Antipolis, 20 September 2005
OMA-BOARD R01

2. Contents OMA Overview OMA Interoperability Program
OMA IPR Policy and Processes
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3. OMA Overview

4. OMA Mission
The mission of the Open Mobile Alliance is to facilitate global user adoption of mobile data services by specifying market driven mobile service enablers that ensure service interoperability across devices, geographies, service providers, operators, and networks while allowing businesses to compete through innovation and differentiation.
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5. OMA Membership
Close to 400 OMA member companies represent a truly global organization with members from all regions, which represents the various parts of the end-to-end value chain
Value Chain
Members By Region
Operators
Wireless Vendor
Content & Other IT
Asia Pacific
Europe
Middle East
Americas
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6. OMA Organisation Board Technical Plenary Operations & Processes
Browser & Content
Release Planning & Mgmt.
Games services
Requirements
Mobile Web Services
Device Mgmt.
Location
Architecture
Data Synchronization
Presence & Availability
Messaging
Security
Interoperability
Developers Interests
Mobile Commerce & Charging
Push to Talk Over Cellular
Legend
Committee
Working Group
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7. Cooperation with Other Organizations
OMA has established cooperation with many external organisations and is looking forward to closer cooperation with a number of others
3GPP
3GPP2
CDG
ERTICO
ETSI
GSMA
IETF
IFPI
ITU-T
JCP
Liberty Alliance
MEF
MeT
MITF-TC1
Mobey Forum
OGC
MPA(A)
Mobile Payment Forum
MCC
Oasis
OSGI
Parlay
PayCircle
RIAA
TeleManagement Forum (TMF)
Telematics Forum
TIGA
W3C
WiFi
WS-I
DVB
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8. OMA Deliverables OMA Release Programme OMA Interoperability Programme
Delivers sets of specifications, packaged as “Enabler Releases”
Based on market-driven requirements and use cases
OMA Interoperability Programme
OMA TestFests for testing specifications and product interoperability
Enabler Test Specifications (ETS) to be used in OMA TestFests or other interoperability and conformance testing
Bilateral testing facilitation with OMA IOP documents and Trusted Zone* services
Third party Test House facilitation with OMA IOP documents and Trusted Zone* services
Others
Reports, analyses, white papers, industry studies etc.
*Trusted Zone – independent environment for compliance checking, test scheduling and reporting, providing commercial confidentiality to TestFest Participants
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9. OMA Recent Accomplishments
Total of 29 OMA Enablers Released, most recent include
OMA Push to Talk Over Cellular
OMA Secure User Plane for Location
OMA Mobile Location Service
Complete list of OMA Enablers can be found at:
Ten OMA IOP TestFests conducted
474 product implementations tested (Status at June 2005)
IPR Policy revision
OMA IPR policy now in line with the IPR policies of other comparable organizations providing for reciprocal licensing to both members and non-members
OMA continues to evaluate the current process of declaration/disclosure of essential IPR and benchmarking against other SDOs
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10. OMA Interoperability Program

11. OMA and Interoperability
The OMA processes and the organization are designed to achieve interoperability
Interoperability is embedded in the requirements phase and through a common architecture
Candidate specifications are converted to Approved Specifications via the Interoperability phase
Companies implementing OMA specifications have a facility to check interoperability with other implementations during the development cycle
OMA is working with other bodies to help ensure that respective deliverables work well together (for example OMA and 3GPP)
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12. The OMA IOP Program Deliverables
Document Development
Enabler Test Requirements
Enabler Test Specifications
Enabler Test Plans
Enabler Implementation Conformance Statements
Conducting IOP TestFest events
Problem identification and specification errata
Test Tool development and procurement
Building relationships with other organisations
E.g. Certification bodies and the test tools industry
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13. OMA Interoperability Initiatives
Test tools for use by OMA members
Building relationships with Certification Bodies
For example use of OMA test deliverables by GCF
IOP Summit meetings (open to all)
Standards organisations
Certification bodies
Test industry
*Trusted Zone – independent environment for compliance checking, test scheduling and reporting, providing commercial confidentiality to TestFest Participants
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14. OMA IPR Policy and Processes

15. OMA IPR Policy Change: “License to all”
At the end of 2004, OMA decided to make this change in order to bring OMA IPR policy in line with the IPR policies of other comparable organizations
The revision of the policy primarily provide for reciprocal licensing to both members and non-members
OMA received a number of requests from organizations such as 3GPP and 3GPP2 to consider this type of revision to its IPR policy, to facilitate better working relationships with such organizations
The revised OMA IPR policy applies to all Specifications approved by the OMA Board of Directors after December 31st, 2004.
This will encompass two types of Specification: (i) all new versions of existing OMA Specifications; and (ii) all new OMA Specifications.
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16. OMA IPR Policy - ongoing
OMA continues to evaluate the current process of declaration/disclosure of essential IPR and benchmark against other SDOs
Considering e.g. timeliness and coverage of non-member declared essential IPR
Improving the quality of OMA specification by attempting to improve the comprehensiveness of the IPR declarations
Consider listing non-members Essential IPR claims on OMA Specifications on the OMA IPR Declarations Web site
Participating IPR workshops arranged by other SDOs such as the ETSI SOS Interop Meetings
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17. Conclusions Interoperability IPR
OMA has made interoperability a core part of our mission and have developed a comprehensive IOP programme. We are happy to be able to share our experiences with partners such as ETSI and are open to further development of the IOP programme to meet industry needs.
IPR
OMA recognizes the IPR concerns of the industry and ETSI efforts in that front. OMA would welcome/propose working more closely with ETSI and other SDOs in order to identify common solutions where applicable
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