Helping the SIP Forum Accomplish Its Mission

The SIP Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to the adoption of SIP and promotion of interoperable product and service implementations. Our principal activities include:

• Organizing SIPit (SIP Interoperability Test events);
• Organizing SIPNOC (SIP Network Operators Conferences);
• Organizing SIPconnect-IT (SIPconnect Interoperability Testing events);
• Organizing and providing a forum for our various Working Groups to accomplish the mission of the Forum;
• Creating Recommendations (mostly technical) to guide implementers on how to implement SIP functionality in ways to insure high-interoperability for functions not defined by other standards bodies (such as the IETF and ITU-T);
• Act as an authoritative voice to the industry on SIP-related matters, through speaking engagements, and other personal activities by our leadership and membership, as well as this website.

By joining as a Full member, your primary benefit is the assurance that these important functions will continue to be accomplished for the benefit of our industry.

To do so, we rely on the generosity of organizations to become Full Members and pay their dues to help us pay our extremely modest annual operating costs. (Our operating budget is very small - around $300,000/year.)

Please contact the SIP Forum's Managing Director, Marc Robins, at marc "dot" robins "at" sipforum "dot" org or +1-203-829-6307 to learn more about how the Forum works to provide benefits to its Full Members. Or, simply Join now! (Note: You must first register as an individual, Participant member and be logged in before you can complete the Full Member online application.)

Academic institutions, research organizations, and industry-related non-profit companies interested in joining the SIP Forum should read this and submit a membership application.

We hope your organization will join the Forum, and help us accomplish our important goals for our industry.

Benefits Comparison

The following table provides a comparison of benefits between Participant and Full membership levels: