Welcome to the SIP Forum Website!
The SIP Forum is an industry association with members from the leading IP communications companies. Its mission: To advance the adoption of IP communications products and services based on SIP.
The Forum promotes SIP as the technology of choice for the control of real-time multimedia communication sessions throughout the Internet, corporate networks, and wireless networks. The Forum directs technical activities aimed at achieving high levels of product interoperability, provides information on the benefits and capabilities of SIP, and highlights successful applications and deployments.
Each of our Working Groups has their own mailing list, many of which are open to individual, "Participant" members. Please feel free to join them, or to join the general "discussion" mailing list.
The Forum is open to both individual "Participant" members, Academic/Institutional Members, and to corporate "Full Members". Individual "Participant" and Academic/Institutional membership is free.
You can find out more about membership here.
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SIP Forum Announces New User Agent Configuration Task Group
The SIP Forum has created a new UA-Config Task Group within the Technical Working Group to create a SIP phone and end-point device configuration profile based on the IETF Config Framework.
The goal is for the Forum to provide a venue and mechanism to help drive the implementation and deployment of such a profile among equipment vendors and service providers, provide a testing environment for such implementations at the SIPit events, and create a "SIP Phone Configuration Compliant" program to provide certification of such implementations.
For more information about the UA-Config task group, please visit the task group webpage HERE.
Fax-over-IP Interoperability Workshop Generates Strong Interest
The SIP Forum hosted -- with Dialogic Corporation as lead event sponsor -- a special FoIP Interoperability Workshop that brought together researchers, engineers, and service providers to exchange ideas, share experiences, and propose approaches to address FoIP problems. Particular focus was on the use and applicability of SIP to address systemic or architectural problems.
The workshop was held at the W Hotel in downtown San Francisco on Monday, November 10, from 11am-3pm.
To view submitted Workshop papers and presentations, please visit the Workshop document repository HERE.
For more information about the workshop and planned, follow-on events, please visit here or contact the SIP Forum Managing Director.
SIP Forum Hosts Second SIP Interoperability Workshop at IETF 73
Over a hundred attendees at IETF 73 joined the SIP Forum for lunch to learn about current SIP Forum activities and initiatives. Co-located with the 73rd Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Meeting in Minneapolis, MN, SFSIW-2 served as a forum to bring together researchers, engineers, and service providers to continue the exchange of ideas, experiences, and propose approaches to address interoperability problems.
To view and download the presentations given at this workshop, please click here.
To view and download submitted papers and workshop presentations given at the 1st SIP Interoperability Workshop (SFSIW-1), co-located with the 70th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada, please click here.
For more information about SFSIW-1, please click here.
SIP Forum Announces 2008 Annual General Meeting Results
The SIP Forum 2008 Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday, 18 September, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 507, in conjunction with Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO Fall 2008.
For the vote results of the meeting, including the full text of the 2008 Annual General Meeting Notice, the presentations given at the meeting and other related information, please visit here.
SIPconnect Compliance Workshop A Big Hit
The SIP Forum presented the second of a special educational workshop on SIPconnect this past September 17, 2008, in conjunction with the Ingate SIP Trunking Workshop and the 2008 Internet Telephony West Conference and EXPO in Los Angeles, California.
Topics included The Why and What of SIPconnect, the SIPconnect Value Proposition, a SIPconnect "Deep Dive", a Step-by-Step SIPconnect Compliance Tutorial, and Lessons Learned from Actual SIPconnect Deployments.
Click here to access the workshop presentations.
SIP Forum Work on SIPconnect v.1.1 in Progress
The SIP Forum reached an important milestone when it formally adopted version 1.0 of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation this past January, 2008 with the unanimous approval of the SIP Forum Board of Directors. At the same time, the Board announced the formation of the SIPconnect v.1.1 Task Group.
The formal adoption by the SIP Forum Board of the SIPconnect 1.0 Technical Recommendation is based on recognition that the recommendation has been through credible peer review, including broad membership and significant community review, that it is stable and is well-understood, and that it is believed to have resolved known design choices.
To read the full announcement, please click here.
To download the ratified SIPconnect Technical Recommendation Version 1.0, please click here.
IMPORTANT NOTICE! Work on SIPconnect 1.1 has begun! For an overview of the work in progress, please visit HERE.
The SIP Forum has created a depository of SIPconnect 1.1 Scoping Documents,
which currently includes submissions from Avaya, Broadsoft, CableLabs, Cbeyond, Microsoft and Siemens, and will be the location of other member contributions as they are made available.
Please click here for the SIPconnect 1.1 Scoping Document depository.
CableLabs hosted a special SIPconnect 1.1 Technical Working Group meeting on September 25 and 26, 2008 to finalize the recommendation.
Recent News
One of the Forum's most important technical activities is the development of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation -- a standards-based recommendation that provides detailed guidelines for direct IP peering and interoperability between IP PBXs and VoIP service provider networks, and the SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program through which eligible companies can license the use of the SIP Forum's 'SIPconnect Compliant' certification mark -- the official brand of the leading standard for SIP Trunking products and services.
For more information about SIPconnect and the SIPconnect Compliant Certification Program, please visit here.
For a current listing of products and services that have achieved SIPconnect Compliant Certification, please click here.
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