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Membership

The Open IPTV Forum are welcoming additional member companies to the forum

  • Companies that are commercially active in the IPTV area and that can actively contribute towards the Forum Objectives are welcome to apply for membership.

  • Member companies will be expected to adequately staff the established work groups in order to drive the Forum work forward towards our goal.

Forum Objectives

  • to create and specify a specification for IPTV that shall be usable for an interactive, personalized, end-to-end IPTV realization, consisting of telecommunication systems, applications and other services, and electronic devices including, but not limited to, consumer products, to assure full compatibility and interoperability between specification compliant services and devices for the benefit of the consumers,
  • to publish and promote the IPTV Specifications (or parts thereof) as an open and non-discriminatory standard that may be used by vendors of communications systems, applications and other services, and electronic devices including, but not limited to, consumer products through, inter alia, making public the Approved IPTV Specifications (or parts thereof) when finalized in the Forum and then submitting such to one or more standard-setting organizations, such as the 3GPP, ETSI, ATIS and Open Mobile Alliance and other relevant standard-setting organizations, for acceptance as an IPTV Standard,
  • to improve and continuously develop the IPTV Specifications through new versions, and promote the standardization,
  • to establish means to secure interoperability between the services and devices in compliance with the IPTV Specifications.

Membership Process

  1. Apply by sending the completed Application Form to membership@openiptvforum.org
  2. The Forum admin group will contact you and start processing an NDA
  3. Upon completion of the NDA the Forum Agreement and Adoption agreement can be sent for review
  4. Technical documentation as Technologies, Requirements and Architecture will be available for review by end of September. You need to accept the Forum Adoption Agreement and the technical documentation as an established baseline in order to become a member in the Forum.
  5. Complete and send the ‘Request for Application Approval / Additional Information’ form
  6. The Forum Steering Group will invite you to a meeting where you can present your company and how you can support the Forum objectives
  7. The Steering Group will then execute your application through a voting process and notify you of the result.

Note:      For 2008 the membership fee has been set at 12 000 Euros.