Standardization of telecommunications technologies and associated service enablers is of key importance for the development of communicating systems in a multi-vendor environment. Many parties such as operators, manufacturers, third party application developers, and sometimes regulators collaborate in the scope of standardization activities to produce technical specifications that are widely endorsed for the development of commercial solutions.
• Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP): 3GPP is not a standardization development organization in its own right but rather a joint project between several regional standardization bodies from Europe, North America, Korea, Japan, and China. The prime objective of 3GPP is to develop UMTS technical specifications. It is also responsible for maintaining existing GSM specifications and developing further GSM extensions (e.g., GPRS).
• Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2): 3GPP2 is another standardization partnership project established out of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) International Mobile Telecommunications ‘‘IMT-2000’’ initiative. The role of 3GPP2 is to produce specifications for services deployed in several North American and Asian markets with focus on next generation CDMA networks.
• GSM Association (GSMA): GSMA is a global trade organization that represents the interest of several hundreds of GSM mobile operators.
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): IETF is a large community of academic and industrial contributors that defines the protocols primarily used on the Internet. Messaging services in the mobile world also rely on several IETF protocols.
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): W3C is a standardization body that concentrates on the development of protocols and formats to be used in the World Wide Web. Well-known formats and protocols published by W3C are the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
• WAP Forum: the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum was a joint project for the definition of WAP technical specifications. WAP Forum: the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum was a joint project for the definition of WAP technical specifications.
• Open Mobile Alliance (OMA): OMA is a standardization forum established in June 2002. Activities of several existing standardization bodies including the ones of the WAP Forum (MMS and others) have been transferred to OMA. OMA is therefore actively involved in maintaining MMS standards designed by the WAP Forum and producing new standards for next generations of MMS devices.
• Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP): 3GPP is not a standardization development organization in its own right but rather a joint project between several regional standardization bodies from Europe, North America, Korea, Japan, and China. The prime objective of 3GPP is to develop UMTS technical specifications. It is also responsible for maintaining existing GSM specifications and developing further GSM extensions (e.g., GPRS).
• Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2): 3GPP2 is another standardization partnership project established out of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) International Mobile Telecommunications ‘‘IMT-2000’’ initiative. The role of 3GPP2 is to produce specifications for services deployed in several North American and Asian markets with focus on next generation CDMA networks.
• GSM Association (GSMA): GSMA is a global trade organization that represents the interest of several hundreds of GSM mobile operators.
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): IETF is a large community of academic and industrial contributors that defines the protocols primarily used on the Internet. Messaging services in the mobile world also rely on several IETF protocols.
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): W3C is a standardization body that concentrates on the development of protocols and formats to be used in the World Wide Web. Well-known formats and protocols published by W3C are the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
• WAP Forum: the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum was a joint project for the definition of WAP technical specifications. WAP Forum: the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum was a joint project for the definition of WAP technical specifications.
• Open Mobile Alliance (OMA): OMA is a standardization forum established in June 2002. Activities of several existing standardization bodies including the ones of the WAP Forum (MMS and others) have been transferred to OMA. OMA is therefore actively involved in maintaining MMS standards designed by the WAP Forum and producing new standards for next generations of MMS devices.
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