Most every profession, business, process, service, or device market employs some form of certification. This is due to the fact that certification is important and desirable to both the providers and users of products and services. DSRC is no exception.
OmniAir DSRC Certification Committee Responsibilities:

Executive Chair: Richard Turnock, Vice President, Engineering & CTO, MARK-IV Industries
Associate Chair, Public: Jules Madey, Director of ITS, New York State Thruway Authority
Associate Chair, Private; Randal Roebuck, DSRC Program Manager, SIRIT Technologies
The basis of the committee is the 5.9GHz DSRC Device Standards Compliance Certification Program which began development in 2006 through a cooperative agreement OmniAir entered into with the ITS Joint Program Office of USDOT. Since then OmniAir has been completing the elements of the program by working with the VII/IntelliDriveSM community, to include automotive (auto OEMs , SAE and tier 1 suppliers); operators (AASHTO and IBTTA), standards groups (IEEE and ISO) and others. Below are links to OmniAir’s work.