FW: [New-work] OMA New Work - 1 New Work Item Approved

Dear All,

OMA would like to inform all the organisations subscribed to the IETF new-work list of the approval of 1 new work item:

1 Connectivity Management Object WI:

http://www.openmobilealliance.org/ftp/Public_documents/TP/Permanent_documents/OMA-WID_0123-ConnectivityMO-V1_0-20051004-A.zip

The present proposal is to create several Management Object definitions for use, in conjunction with the OMA Device Management Enabler, to manage data network connectivity settings for mobile terminals over common bearer and proxy types.

Standardized Connectivity Management

Providing a standardized set of management objects for configuration of data network connectivity through the OMA Device Management system will improve the usability and customer experience of mobile terminals that rely upon data services. As proposed, the management object definitions may be used in conjunction with OMA Device Management Candidate and Approved Enabler Releases over a variety of transports including: HTTP, HTTPS, OBEX over IrDA, OBEX over Bluetooth, and various forms of Smart Card.

Application-Neutral

By proposing to do this work in an application-neutral fashion, we avoid reinvention of solutions to the same set of problems in each of the OMA working groups that produces an application enabler. This reduces the connectivity parameters that an application enabler specification must define to a simple reference node, ConRef (Connectivity Reference). OMA Device Management Working Group has consistently provided this simple feedback to existing application enabler working groups as they have presented their management objects for review by the DM WG. This ensures there will be good alignment between application enablers and these connectivity management objects when the specifications are completed.

Bearer-Neutral

By proposing to prepare the specifications in two parts, a bearer-neutral part and bearer-specific bindings, we reinforce the OMA principle of network neutrality while providing specificity where needed but without bias for or against any particular network type.

Single Enabler Release Version

It is proposed to produce a single approved enabler release of these connectivity management object specifications. After final approval of that enabler release, it is recommended that this work item be closed. This limitation on scope is intended to improve interoperability by reducing version-driven fragmentation in the market. The candidate release period is believed to be sufficient to work out any practical interoperability problems prior to final approval.

This work item has been allocated to the OMA DM (Device Management WG) for specification development.

Best regards,

Victoria Gray on behalf of OMA.