The Open Mobile Alliance: Delivering Service Enablers for Next-Generation Applications

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Service Enablers

1.2 The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)

1.3 Service Enablers in OMA

2.0 The Silo Syndrome and its Solution

2.1 Vertical Integration

2.2 Re-use as first class citizen

2.3 The OMA Service Environment

2.4 Additional Features of the OSE

2.5 OSE and Related Technologies

2.6 Summary

3.0 The Open Mobile Alliance – An Organizational Overview

3.1 Overview of OMA

3.2 Principles of the OMA

3.3 OMA’s Relationship with External Organizations

3.4 OMA Organizational Structure

3.5 The Processes

3.6 Interoperability in the Open Mobile Alliance

3.7 Summary

4.0 Interoperability TestFests

4.1 The objective of interoperability in the OMA

4.2 The organization of the test campaigns

4.3 Planning

4.4 Finances

4.5 TestFest Statistics

4.6 Comparison with other SDOs

4.7 Summary

5.0 Service Provider - The Network Operator Perspective

5.1 The Need for OMA

5.2 Operators in OMA

5.3 OMA Challenges for the Future

5.4 Summary

6.0 Service Provider - The Enterprise Perspective

6.1 Enterprise Needs

6.2 OMA Enterprise awareness

6.3 Summary

Part II – Horizontal Topics

7.0 The Policy Enforcer Details: Model, Architecture, Realization and Impact

7.1 Policy Enforcement modeling in the OSE

7.2 Beyond the OSE: Policy Enforcement as Service Oriented Architecture Composition

7.3 Logical architecture versus deployment considerations

7.4 Relationship to Parlay and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)

7.5 Policy modeling

7.6 Policy Enforcer through OMA enabler realization

7.7 Relationship of Policy Enforcer to IETF PEP/PDP

7.8 Policy assembly, composition and orchestration

7.9 Summary - Next steps

8.0 The Policy Evaluation, Enforcement and Management Enabler

8.1 Are Those specifications Really Needed?

8.2 PEEM Market Needs

8.3 PEEM Architecture and Technical Specifications

8.4 PEEM Salient Points

8.5 Impact of Specifications on the Industry

8.6 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

8.7 Summary

9.0 Utilization of IMS in OMA

9.1 Are those specifications really needed?

9.2 Standard pre-cursors to IMSinOMA

9.3 Architecture overview

9.4. Salient Points and Divergent Views

9.5   Impact of specifications

9.6 Specifications evolution and future direction

9.7 Summary

10.0 Service Architectures - Parlay and the OSE

10.1 A Quick Taster of Parlay

10.2 The Parlay in OSE Enabler

10.3 PIOSE Challenges

10.4 Impact of Specifications on the Industry

10.5 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

10.6 Summary

11.0 A Web Services Technology Realization of the OSE

11.1 Web Services Crash Course

11.2 A Web Services Infrastructure Framework

11.3 Mobile Web Services

11.4 The OMA Web Services Enabler Release

11.5 The Technologies Specified by OWSER

11.6 Network Identity

11.7 OWSER and the OSE

11.8 Divergent views and their resolution

11.9 Specifications evolution and future direction

11.10 Impact of the Specifications

11.11 Summary

12.0 The OMA Service Provider Environment enabler

12.1 Are Those Specifications Really Needed?

12.2 OSPE Use Cases

12.3 OSPE Requirements

12.4 Standards Pre-Cursors to OSPE

12.5 OSPE Architecture and Technical Specifications

12.6 OSPE Salient Points

12.7 Impact of Specifications on the Industry

12.8 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

12.9 Summary

13.0 The Security Enablers

13.1 Are Those Specifications Really Needed?

13.2 Security Common Functions Enabler

13.3 SEC-CF Salient Points

13.4 Impact of Specifications on the Industry

13.5 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

13.6 Summary

Part III – Selected OMA Service Enablers

14.0 The Presence and Group Management Enablers

14.1 Presence – What is it?

14.2 A Constructionist View of Presence Architectures

14.3 The OMA Presence Model and Specifications

14.4 A Deployment Example – Deploying Presence and XDM Enablers in an IMS or MMD environment

14.5 Impact of Specifications on the Industry

14.6 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

14.7 Summary

15.0 The Push to talk over Cellular enabler

15.1 Are those Specifications Really Needed?

15.2 Standard Pre-cursors to OMA Push to Talk over Cellular

15.3 Architecture and Technical Specifications Overview

15.4 Salient points

15.5 Impact of Specifications on the Industry

15.6 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

15.7 Summary

16.0 Mobile E-mail 

16.1 Background

16.2 MEM Architecture

16.3 Summary

17.0 The Charging Enabler

17.1 Are Those Specifications Really Needed?

17.2 Standards Pre-Cursors to Charging

17.3 Charging Requirements

17.4 Charging Architecture and Technical specifications

17.5 Divergent Views and Their Resolution

17.6 Impact of Specifications on the Industry

17.7 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

17.8 Summary

18.0 The Device Management Enablers

18.1 Device Management Requirements

18.2 Device Management Architecture

18.3 Device Management Enabler Specifications

18.4 Impact of DM Specifications on the Industry

18.5 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

18.6 Summary

19.0 The Digital Rights Management Enabler

19.1 What were the drivers for those specifications?

19.2 Are those specifications really necessary?

19.3 OMA DRM Requirements

19.4 Architecture and technical specifications overview

19.5 Salient points

19.6   Impact of specifications on the industry

19.7 Specifications evolution and future direction

19.8 Summary

20.0 The Broadcast Enabler

20.1 Are those Specifications Really Needed?

20.2 Standards Pre-Cursors to BCAST Enabler

20.3 BCAST Architecture

20.4 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

20.5 Summary

21.0 The Dynamic Content Delivery Enabler

21.1 Why Do We Need New Specifications for DCD?

22.0 The Global Permissions Management Enabler

22.1 Are Those Specifications Really Needed?

22.2 Standards Pre-Cursors to GPM

22.3 GPM Architecture and Technical Specifications

22.4 GPM Salient Points

22.5 Impact of Specifications on the Industry

22.6 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

22.7 Summary

23.0 The Categorization based Content Screening Global Enabler

23.1 Are Those Specifications Really Needed?

23.2 Standards Pre-Cursors to CBCS

23.3 CBCS Architecture and Technical Specifications

23.4 Impact of Specifications on the Industry

23.5 Specifications Evolution and Future Direction

23.6 Summary

24.0 The Game Services Enabler

25.0 The Location Enabler

25.1 What is Location?

25.2 Location Architectures

25.3 The Mobile Location Services Enabler

25.4 The Secure User Plane Location

26.0 The Mobile Application Environment

26.1 The Mobile Web Architecture

26.2 Mobile Browser

26.3 Mobile Content Data Formats

26.4 Multiple Interaction Modalities and Devices

26.5 Summary

27 Recent Topics

27.1 The General Service Subscription Management Enabler

27.2 Device Profile Evolution

27.3 Converged IP Messaging Enabler

27.4 Mobile Advertising

Part IV – Wrap Up

28.0 Concluding Remarks, and what’s in store next?

28.1 Project Post-mortem

28.2 What’s Next?

Annex A

Abbreviations and Acronyms

References