"In a nutshell, carriers and enterprises are developing parallel technologies for managing mobile devices. These parallel approaches are actually on a collision course, and carriers and IT departments will soon enough be overwriting each other with patches and updates...
Both the enterprise and the carrier expect to manage the mobile device. This leads to a fundamental question. Either the IT department buys an unlocked device (and the carrier cannot manage it), or the carrier is involved in the sale, and the IT department is in constant contention over the most basic rights to device management...
Best practices on both sides of the equation put us in a perpetual loop. The carrier changes the Wi-Fi settings. Then the enterprise does the same. And so forth...
[We need]: standardized demarcation between OMA DM Management Authorities and an Enterprise Management Object for OMA DM. The MEA would define the management object and would work with OMA to implement and standardize the demarcation points."
