Related links

For more information about IPTV, check out the standards development organizations that have been active in its development. This includes the ITU-T IPTV focus group (www.itu.int/itu-t/iptv), which led to the IPTV Global Standards Initiative (www.itu.int/itu-t/gsi/iptv); the Alliance for Telcommunications Industry Solutions IPTV Interoperability Forum (ATIS-IIF; www.atis.org/iif); European Telcommunications Standards Institute Telecom & Internet Converged Services & Protocols for Advanced Network (ETSI TISPAN; www.etsi.org/tispan); MultiService Forum (www.msforum.org); the Digital Video Broadcasting project (www.dvb.org); Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA; www.dlna.org); and the Broadband Forum (www.broadband-forum.org). In particular, we recommend the ITU-T IPTV focus group's proceedings—freely available for download at www.itu.int/publ/T-PROC-IPTVFG-2008/en.

Disclaimer: This list is part of the June 2009 IPTV theme. It will not be maintained by Computing Now.

Primary Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) working on IPTV

1. International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications Standardization (ITU-T)'s IPTV Focus Group (FG-IPTV) now transitioned to the IPTV Global Standards Initiative (IPTV-GSI) doing the work in ITU-T Study Groups 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, and 17 as directed and coordinated by the ITU-T IPTV Joint Coordination Activity (IPTV-JCA).

http://www.itu.int/itu-t/iptv
http://www.itu.int/itu-t/gsi/iptv
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/jca/iptv

2. Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS)'s IPTV Interoperability Forum (ATIS-IIF)

http://www.atis.org
http://www.atis.org/iif

3. Digital Video Broadcasting project (DVB)'s CM-IPTV and TM-IPI working groups who//what?// their standards through the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

http://www.dvb.org
http://www.dvb.org/groups_modules/commercial_module/cmiptv/index.xml?groupID=49
http://www.dvb.org/groups_modules/technical_module/tmipi/index.xml?groupID=14

4. European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)'s Telecoms & Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Services (ETSI-TISPAN)

http://www.etsi.org
http://www.etsi.org/tispan

Standards-development organizations and forums working on IPTV-related areas

Research and newsletter sources on the Internet covering IPTV and digital video

"TV over the Internet" Web sites