Nine major electronics companies have formed an initiative to establish a single global standard for IP to prevent conflict between various systems. Known as the Open IP Forum, some of the companies backing it include Ericsson, Matsushita’s Panasonic, Philips, Samsung Electronics, Siemens AG Sony Corp, AT&T, Telecom Italia and France Telecom. Release.
As Reuters reports, just as notable are the companies not participating in the project: Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft. Also, no movie studios or TV production companies are involved, though the forum’s representatives say it’s literally open to working with any company that shares its goals of developing a uniform system that will keep costs down and spur consumers to adopt IP. The nine founders say they want an agreement on technology requirements by September and a first set of technology specifications by the end of 2007.
The forum will embrace existing standards that address part of the interoperability challenge. It said it supported the work of IP Multimedia Subsystem for unified Internet service delivery and the Digital Living Network Alliance which promises to make it easy for consumers to use their digital music, films and other content across their home or private network.
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