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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 individual "Participant" members, Academic/Institutional Members, and to corporate "Full Members". Individual "Participant" and Academic/Institutional membership is free.
To view our current Full Member Listing, click HERE. To view our Academic Member Listing, please click HERE.
You can find out more about membership here.
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SIP Forum 2009 Annual General Meeting Results
The SIP Forum 2009 General Meeting was held on Tuesday, 03 November 2009, from 5:30 - 7:00pm in San Francisco, CA (during the VoiceCon San Francisco 2009 Trade show.)
In the meeting, a review of the financial operations, including a review of the audit for fiscal year 2009, was conducted, as well as a review of the operational and technical activities that have occurred over the past 12 months since the last General Meeting. In addition, votes were cast for new board members and for two voting issues.
For more information about the meeting, including the voting results, the full text of the 2009 Annual General Meeting Notice, and the presentations given during the meeting, please click HERE.
SIP Forum User Agent Configuration (UA-Config) Task Group Updates at IETF 76
John Elwell, UA Config Task Group Chair, gave a special presentation during the IETF 76 event in Hiroshima, Japan. The presentation provided a comprehensive review of the goals of the task group, and an overview of the work in progress. To view or download this presentation, please click HERE.
The UA-Config Task Group, part of the SIP Forum's main Technical Working Group, is tasked with creating a SIP phone and end-point device configuration profile based on the IETF Config Framework.
The primary goal of the group is 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.
SIP Forum Forms New Smart Grid Special Interest Group (SIG)
The SIP Forum recently formed a new Smart Grid Special Interest Group (SIG) with the focus of
evaluating the appropriateness of using SIP as a protocol for a number of Smart Grid areas, including the Home Area Network (HAN), Utilities' Operational Network, and PEV (Plug-In Vehicle) deployments.
This new group will also evaluate the appropriateness of SIP in the list of priorities identified by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) identified in the document “NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Release 1.0.
For more information about the Smart Grid SIG, please visit the SIG charter page HERE.
To access a draft of a special white paper entitled "Applicability of SIP in Smart Grid Demand and Response Communication", and to view other documents in the SIG's document repository, please click HERE
SIPit 25 Results Are In!
SIPit 25 - the leading SIP interoperability Test Event - was held at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in Durham, New Hampshire, on September 14-18, 2009.
The SIP Forum is pleased to report that this was one of the most effective SIPits so far. Click HERE for the event summary report. To watch a video interview from SIPit 25 with "SIPit Master" Robert Sparks, please click HERE. For more information about SIPit events, please visit the SIPit website HERE.
To view the results of past SIPit events, please visit the SIPit section of the SIP Forum website HERE.
Eric Burger, SIP Forum Chairman, Presents At U.S Capital Visitor's Center
Eric Burger was part of a special panel discussion on "What's Next for the Net?" presented by the Internet Society-DC Chapter (ISOC-DC) on September 14, 2009 at the Orientation Theater, U.S. Capital Visitor's Center, Capital Building in Washington, D.C..
Hosted by Representative Adolphus Towns, and joined by Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer, Internet Society; Steve Crocker, Internet pioneer and CEO, Shinkuro, Inc., and moderator Michael R. Nelson, Visiting Professor, Internet Studies, CCT Georgetown University, the panel explored the future of the Internet.
The Internet is forty years old but still evolving–at an accelerating pace. According to some forecasters, in the next ten years we will see even more growth and new applications than we’ve seen in the last forty. Entire industries will be transformed. The "Internet of Things" connecting hundreds of billions of devices and sensors, new mobile applications, Cloud computing, and virtual worlds are just a few of the “game changers” that ubiquitous, high-speed networks will enable.
For more information, please visit the event website HERE
SIPconnect Compliance Workshop Redux!
The SIP Forum presented another SIP Trunking Best-Practices Workshop focusing on SIPconnect and the SIPconnect Compliant Program this past September 2, 2009, in conjunction with the Ingate SIP Trunking Workshop and the 2009 Internet Telephony West Conference and EXPO at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles, California.
Presentations included a recent overview of the activities of the SIP Forum, an overview of SIPconnect and its value proposition, a Step-by-Step SIPconnect Compliance Program Tutorial, and Lessons Learned from Actual SIPconnect Deployments.
Click HERE to view and download the workshop presentations.
SIP Forum FoIP Task Group Publishes Official Fax-over-IP Problem Statement
The Fax-over-IP Interoperability Task Group has published Version 1.0 of its official Problem Statement, a document that details the various interoperability issues that currently plague FoIP services. This important document is available for download HERE.
The FoIP Task Group has developed a task group charter, which you can view HERE.
The FoIP Task Group evolved out of a special Fax-over-IP Interoperability Workshop in November, 2008 hosted by the SIP Forum and sponsored by Dialogic Corporation, that brought together researchers, engineers, and service providers to exchange ideas, share experiences, and propose approaches to address FoIP problems.
To view task group documents and other related materials, please visit the FoIP Task Group document repository HERE.
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 repository of SIPconnect 1.1 Documents,
which includes submissions from Avaya, Broadsoft, CableLabs, Cbeyond, MetaSwitch, Microsoft and Siemens, and contains various draft iterations, including v.00 through v.16 documents.
Please click here for the SIPconnect 1.1 Document repository.
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.
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 a video interview with SIP Forum Chairman Eric Burger conducted at IETF 73, 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.
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