It was developed by the WAP Forum and since 2002 is maintained by the Open Mobile Alliance as a standard to allow XML documents to be transmitted in a compact manner over mobile networks and proposed as an addition to the World Wide Web Consortium's Wireless Application Protocol family of standards.
The WAP Forum initiated its development, and since 2002, the Open Mobile Alliance has upheld it as a standard to facilitate compact transmission of XML documents over mobile networks, aligning with the World Wide Web Consortium's Wireless Application Protocol standards.