Led by: Boeing, Lockheed Martin & NetMotion Wireless

Communicaitons options are evolving rapidly for mobile workforces. Organisations need to leverage wide-area wireless data technologies such as CDPD, GSM/GPRS, or CDMA/1xRTT to make mobile workers more productive in the field. When returning to their home office or depot, these same mobile workers need to roam from their wide-area wireless network onto their corporate LAN or WLAN which will provide access to greater data bandwidth and reduces air-time expenses.

These needs pose a serious challenge: standard client- and server-based applications were designed for traditional fixed networks and cannot cope with the issues introduced by wireless or mixed network environments. Current operating systems and applicaitons were never designed for this level of mobility.

The Secure Mobile Architecture effort of the Mobile Management Forum intends to solve these challenges.

In support of the Open Group's Boundaryless Information Flow approach the MMF is extending current activities from requirements specification to establish an architecture framework model for secure mobility - look under Recent Documents below for our charter. This activity will include developing a taxonomy of standards to be used to input to the Standards Information Base maintained by The Open Group Architecture Forum. A liaison with the DMTF was established in 2002 in order to help build mobility requirements into the Common Information Model (CIM) and Directory Enabled Networks (DEN) specifications.

The diagram below provides a visual overview of the vision we have for the Secure Mobile Architecture.

Full details of our progress to realize this vision can be found by looking at the recent documents.

The members of the Open Group Mobile Management Forum, Security Forum, the Directory Interoperability Forum and the the Messaging Forum are also working together on the subject of Access Control and Directories for Mobility, based on use-cases. In addition, in co- operation with other bodies, we are working for a global Identity Management framework. We are analysing the requirements to help the industry develop standards to support interoperable products that meet these standards.

The MMF is working with the DMTF, the IEEE, the PCCA, the MDA and OMA to serve our members better