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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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SIPit 26 Registration is Now Open!
The SIP Forum has announced that registration for the next SIPit event -- SIPit 26 -- is now open! SIPit 26 will be held in Kista - the telecom valley outside Stockholm, Sweden - on May 17-21, 2010, and will be hosted by Edvina and TANDBERG and sponsored by Ingate, Intertex and .se.
For more details and to register, please visit http://www.sipit.net and http://sipit.edvina.se.
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.
SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum Forge Global Partnership
The SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum have joined forces to drive the deployment and interoperability of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) related technologies and services. The cooperation includes plans to collaborate on initiatives to educate and co-promote the deployment and integration of these two next-generation protocols throughout the industry.
IPv6 is a next generation Internet protocol designed to replace and improve upon IPv4 which serves as the fundamental transportation layer protocol for today's Internet. IPv6 has a number of enhanced features and functionality designed to improve the security of IP traffic and provide more support for real-time communications. IPv6 syncs seamlessly with SIP in the application layer, which serves as next generation signalling protocol for handling VoIP and multimedia communications over IP networks.
In the next few months, the SIP Forum and IPv6 Forum leadership will work together to formulate a joint program calendar for their combined membership which may include co- marketing and industry events, technology interoperability initiatives and technical working group collaboration.
For more information about the announcement, please click HERE
User Agent Configuration (UA-Config) Task Group Commences Last Call for Final Draft of Specification
The SIP Forum UA-Config task group has announced that its User Agent Configuration Recommendation – the first specification developed to streamline the locating, retrieving and maintaining of configuration-related information for SIP User Agents -- has been placed into last call and will shortly be presented to the SIP Forum Board of Directors for ratification.
To view or download a copy of the latest draft of the recommendation, 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.
An updated presentation is available that provide 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.
For more information about the UA-Config task group, please visit the task group webpage HERE.
New Smart Grid SIG Presentation and Resources Available
A new presentation about the role of SIP in Smart Grid Networks was given by SIG participant Bill Leslie, Longboard Technologies, at the past Grid ComForum in Santa Clara, CA. To view or access this presentation, please click HERE.
The SIP Forum formed the 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 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 new 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
SIP Forum FoIP Task Group Publishes New SIP-SDP Problem Statement
The Fax-over-IP Interoperability Task Group has published a new T.38 SIP-SDP subgroup Problem Statement that details a number of SDP offer/answer interoperability issues found while implementing and connecting T.38 compliant endpoints together, primarily over the SIP signaling mechanism. Click HERE to view or download the document.
In addition, the Forum previously published an official task group 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 SIP Trunking Seminar Presentations Available
The SIP Forum presented a number of sessions during the Ingate SIP Trunking Workshop at the January 2010 ITEXPO at the Miami Beach Florida Convention Center. To
Presentations included a recent overview of SIP Trunking and the activities of the SIP Forum, an overview of SIPconnect and its value proposition, and Lessons Learned from Actual SIPconnect Deployments.
Click HERE to view and download the workshop presentations.
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 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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