OMA-TS-DM_TND-V1_2_1-20080617-A(7)

4. Introduction

Other OMA DM specifications define the syntax and semantics of the OMA DM protocol. However, the usefulness of such a protocol would be limited if the managed entities in devices required different data formats and displayed different behaviors. To avoid this situation this specification defines a number of mandatory Management Objects for various uses in devices. These objects are primarily associated with OMA DM and SyncML configuration.

Since device manufacturers will always develop new functions in their devices and since these functions often are

proprietary, no standardized Management Objects exist for them. To make these functions manageable in the devices that have them, a device description framework is needed that can provide servers with the necessary information they must have in order to manage the new functions. The intention with this framework is that device manufacturers will publish

descriptions of their devices as they enter the market. Organizations operating DM Servers should then only have to feed the new description to their servers for them to automatically recognize and manage the new functions in the devices.