Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum SIP Forum general meeting 21 September 2005

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Meeting agenda  Official business  Meeting operation setup  Nominations for chair, minutes takers (2)  Financial review  Voting  Confirmation of authorized voting members, quorum requirements & decision requirements  Balloting, counting, and results  Unofficial business  Reviews: SIPit, SIPconnect  2008 Look forward  Adjourn

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Financial discussion: 7/ /2007

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Voting preliminaries  Current member count: 25  Quorum requirement:  13 for normal business (Can be satisfied by presence or proxy)

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Director candidates - 5 for 3 seats  Eric Burger - BEA Systems  (current Board member standing for re-election)  Mark Enstrom - Broadsoft  Marc Robins - Robins Consulting Group  SIP Forum Managing Director (elect)  Richard Shockey - Neustar  Andrew Singleton - McLeod USA

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Voting  Question 1: Board  Only 1 can NOT be from a Full Member  Question 2: Discharge of director liability  Time to vote!

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Vote results  Board  Eric Burger  Mark Enstrom  Richard Shockey  Discharge of director liability  Approved

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum SIPit

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum  Week-long engineering test events  Held twice a year  Moves around the globe  Averages around 100 implementations  60 to 90 companies  16 to 20 countries

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum SIPit 20 - April Belgium

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum GOAL: Find and fix what doesn’t work  Implementations improve  Specifications improve  Survey of general state of implementations reported back to IETF and SIPForum lists  Participants claim 4 to 6 months of results from the week at SIPit compared to what they would achieve testing separately

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Past Events SIPit 1 (April 1999) - SIPit 20 (April 2007) Prior Hosts

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum  SIPit 21 is next week in Beijing!  Hosted by the BII Group and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum  Future Events  SIPit 22 - April Massachusetts  Hosted by  SIPit 23 - October France  Hosted by  More Information:

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum SIPconnect Briefing Chris Gatch Board Member CTO, Cbeyond

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Looking Back  2005  Industry Group publishes the SIPconnect Interface Specification  2005  SIPconnect Initiative moved into the SIP Forum  2006  SIPconnect reached Proposed Recommendation Status  Limited Interoperability and Installation  2007  Broad PBX Support + Growing Service Provider Support  Meaningful Implementation “in the thousands of locations”  SIPconnect Compliant Program Launched

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Impact of SIPconnect  SIP Trunking is enjoying broad industry adoption, especially among competitive service providers and PBX providers.  Channel & Industry awareness is strong and growing  SIPconnect is the defacto standard for SIP Trunking– there are no competitors By any objective measure SIPconnect has been a positive influence on SIP Trunking adoption and interoperability

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum SIPconnect Compliant Program  The SIP Forum recently launched the new SIPconnect Compliant program  SIPconnect Compliant is a certification mark that can only be used by companies that produce products and services that comply with the mandatory requirements of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation published by the SIP Forum  Currently 6 participant with several more in process. Two of the first six participants were new SIP Forum members.  $2500US per year for SIP Forum members  Successful PR launch with 6+ press and analyst briefings by different program participants

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Looking Ahead – 2008 Goals  Expansion of SIPconnect Compliant Program  Member Recruitment  Awareness among buyers  Process and website improvements  Board Approval of SIPconnect Technical Recommendation  Start SIPconnect v2 in Technical Working Group  Stretch Goal – Work Provisioning draft through the working group

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum SIP Forum: The View Forward Eric Burger 2007 SIP Forum AGM 30 October 2007

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum FIRST ACT  PRESENTATIONS

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Marketing and Administration  Expect great things from Marc  Fiscal: Membership tracking  Administration: This great room, at a great price  Marketing: Programs he will shortly discuss  Continue with current AR/PR  More visibility in the industry

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Vision for 2008  SIP Forum is about real-time, interactive, Internet communications  interoperability, scalability, reliability, and deployments  Topology agnostic  Peer-to-peer  IMS  Everything in between  Business model agnostic  Usage-based network operator  Flat-fee  “Free”  Really free  Bespoke hardware  Open source software  Everything in between

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum What Do We Stand For?  Protect end-to-end principal  Protect user privacy and security  Protect network operator security  Ensure user choice for communication  Modality  Services  Business models

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Why Be a SIP Forum Full Member?  Guilt by association: Top names in SIP are members  Support important work to promote SIP:  SIPit  SIMPLEt  SIPconnect  Is this enough?

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Annual Targets  From relevant SIP Forum impact areas  Interoperability testing  Interoperability reporting  Market awareness  Others  Tangible, achievable goals  Stated on a periodic basis  Reported on a periodic basis  Actions  Complete - see Jay’s presentation  Abandon  In Progress

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Looking Back to Look Forward  SIPit successful; tests stack and individual features  SIPconnect successful; many vendors signed on and interoperable  Still, rare for a multi-vendor SIP network to interoperate  Different assumptions about optional SIP features  Confusing SIP specifications  Poor implementations

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum 2008 Plan  Hold series of SIP Interoperability Workshops  Determine weaknesses  Specifications  Do we need profiles (like SIPconnect)?  Implementations  Draft plan for action  Be prepared to raise SIPit to next level

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Thank You for Your Continued Support Eric Burger

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Vision and Plan for Marc Robins SIP Forum Managing Director Elect

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Primary Goals  Increase Community Outreach  Expand Marketing and Promotional Activities  Increase Content and Communications Flow  Create New Educational Activities  Increase Membership  = ADDING MORE VALUE TO SIP FORUM MEMBERSHIP

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Community Outreach and Communications  Web Site Revamp/Refresh  Restart Monthly Newsletter  Blog  Wikis  Sponsorship of Workshops (i.e., IETF lunch/workshop)

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Marketing and Promotional Activities  New Advertising Campaign  New Collateral, Whitepapers, etc.  Support for SIPconnect Compliant Program  Monthly PR Announcements  Grow # of Event Co-Sponsorships  Sponsorship of Trade Show Pavilions (ie. “SIP Solutions Center” concept)  Create New Editorial Opportunities (print and online):  Monthly magazine columns, other editorial features, Q&A Interviews with SIP Forum Full Members, notes from the Managing Director, etc.

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Website TLC  Design Revamp  Update content  Add SIP Technology newsfeed  New Original Content: Blog, newsletter, columns  Aggregation of Full Member content

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Educational Activities  Sponsor Conference Workshops  “How to Become SIPconnect Compliant”  Sponsor Conference Tracks  Host Webinars

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum Grow Membership Base  Add 10 New Full Members over the next year  Renew 3 Full Member Companies that have dropped membership  Create new membership categories: i.e., Educational/Gov’t/Non-Profit, new top tier that includes SIPconnect Compliant Program fees, etc.

Copyright © 2007 SIP Forum TMC Deal on the Table  SIP Forum Pavilion at Internet Telephony EXPO West 2008  SIP Forum speaking opportunities at conferences  SIPconnect compliance workshop at ITEXPO East 2008 Miami  Advertising in Unified Communications Magazine, 6x ad in Internet Telephony – create spread, ½ is SIP Forum ad, ½ is co-op ads from SIP Forum members  Content sharing - SIP Forum provides experts and edit. Dedicated SIP column in UC magazine  Possible move of annual general meeting to IT EXPO?  TMC media sponsor of SIPit events. TMC to submit proposal to host a SIPit  TMC provides news feed to SIP Forum website  Comp booths with association sponsorship at ITEXPO East and West 2008

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