The Open Mobile Alliance Digital Rights Management [Standards in a Nutshell]

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is an industry forum with nearly 400 members representing the entire mobile industry value chain, including the telecommunications, information technology, and content industries. The OMA focuses on developing market-driven, interoperable mobile service enablers for the rapidly converging communications, entertainment, and media worlds. OMA digital rights management (DRM) systems are important examples of such enablers. Although they have been developed for the mobile market, these systems assume network and bearer-agnostic delivery of the content over Internet protocol (IP). This assumption makes OMA DRM systems suitable for use in any environment where the content is delivered over IP, which is true of a very wide array of applications. In this article, we present an overview of the OMA DRM systems and describe their most important features