What is BONDI?

Within the mobile web development marketplace, applications cannot simply be written to run on even a small proportion of the available mobile devices. For a developer to provide a service, it is necessary to develop individual applications for a multitude of different native platforms. The cost to the mobile industry of this inefficiency is huge. It slows down time to market, fragments the market and increases customer confusion; hence impeding the uptake of services.

The OMTP BONDI initiative seeks to help remedy this problem by helping to address the way in which the existing web 2.0 environment is moved onto mobile devices. Mobile devices offer new capabilities to web service developers which make them very desirable, but present new security issues. OMTP is defining the key interfaces that enable the mobile web platform to access sensitive functions on the mobile device and the appropriate security that will enable new services and create user trust. Working with standards bodies such as W3C is essential to the overall success of BONDI.

By delivering high level requirements, draft specifications and a Reference Implementation which will cement those requirements in a solid foundation, BONDI will provide a consistent, highly desirable, secure interface from web applications to billions of devices in the future.

What does BONDI deliver?

Interface Requirements – A high level definition of the BONDI interfaces which include a dynamic API which is remotely updateable once the device is in the field.
Security and Architecture requirements – Requirements for BONDI architectural constraints and for the security policy which protects the user from harm.
API specifications – Documentation that defines the syntax and semantics of the BONDI APIs.
Security Policy DTD – An interoperable XML description of the security policy which defines the access that a particular web application and widget will have to the BONDI APIs.
Reference Implementation (RI) – The BONDI RI is a real concrete example (using Windows Mobile 6.x as the initial platform) of how the interfaces and security specifications should be implemented. The RI SDK contains API documentation and example code. Other platforms will follow.
Compliance Criteria – A set of criteria which may be used to judge compliance of implementation against the defined standard and RI.

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