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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (51665)	6/12/2002 4:15:52 PM
From: mightylakers	Respond to of 54805

I'm waiting to see who is the father of the all alliances.

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (51665)	6/12/2002 9:48:06 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

re: Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) << I don't know enough about the various alliances to know if you're being serious or facetious. >> I wasn't intending to be facetious. I consider this to be potentially a very important alliance for a number of reasons. First there have been altogether too many mobile alliances, consortiums, and forums, however important. This one combines several of the most important ones under a single (underlying) technology-agnostic umbrella, and these formerly autonomous entities become working groups of OMA: - WAP Forum - Location Interoperability Forum (LIF) - SyncML Initiative - MMS Interoperability Group (MMS-IOP) - Wireless Village Second, the focus is on interoperability of meaningful bearer-agnostic services and applications that will drive the growth of mobile wireless data regardless of the underlying technology (which is the focus of 3GPP & 3GPP2). Third, while interoperability (network to network and vendor to vendor) has always been a key focus of the GSM community, and a key factor in its wide spread adoption, until relatively recently it has had less focus in the CDMA community. This is a very large organization, and it remains to be seen whether or not it can be effective, but work has moved rapidly in the forums that are folding in, so I suspect it could be. WAP 2.0 is already in standard (January) and several other key deliverables are in progress. The initial 200 members could quickly double. Obviously we are looking at open committee-based architecture and standards as the output of this organization but in addition to kings like Ericsson and Nokia the initial membership includes several recognizable gorillas including IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, and Qualcomm - which is interesting, to say the least. The organization includes all of the major infra and handset vendors associated with GSM/3GSM and PDC/PHS but it also includes key members of Qualcomm's value chain who were not represented in the original Open Mobile Architecture Initiative including Lucent, and Kyocera. [Nortel still not in]. The organization also includes many of the key CDMA carriers including Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS, KDDI, Bell Canada, SK Telecom, as well as ETRI. [GSMA a member but not CDG]. OMA also includes most of the major names associated with IT/IS. PKI, and m-Security as well as MasterCard and Visa (American Express not in yet]. The biggest potential beneficiary of this initiative is likely to be you and me (yes you, someday, maybe <g>), the wireless data end users (and wireless investors). - Eric -