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

Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) Broadband Forum (previously known as the DSL Forum) Broadband Services Forum (BSF) Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) CableLabs' OpenCable, PacketCable, DOCSIS and other projects Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and their IPTV Oversight & Coordination Committee (IPTV OCC) Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Digital Audio Visual Council (DAVIC)—no longer active Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)—lead SDO for content distribution and IPTV within the home Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA)'s P4PWG working group of ISPs and P2P vendors looking to leverage peer-to-peer protocols for IPTV content distribution  

 

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Media BureauFiber to the Home Council High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) HomePNA Alliance Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which has numerous committees working on IPTV-related standards International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), including the Audio/Video Transport (AVT), Multiparty Multimedia Session Control (MMUSIC), and Media Server Control working groups Internet Protocol Detailed Record Organization (ipdr.org) Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) IPsphere Forum (IPSF) Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Mobile DTV Alliance

 

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Multimedia Over Coax Alliance (MOCA) MultiService Forum (MSF), who will be holding an IPTV interoperability testing event as part of GMI08 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Nordic IPTV Standards Initiative (NIPSI) Open IPTV Forum Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 1394 Trade Association UPnP Forum Video Services Forum (VSF) WiMedia Alliance World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

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

Accenture Advanced-television America's Network Bitpipe Broadband Gear Report - Voice, Video, Data Broadband Home (BBH) Broadcast Engineering Cable 360 Net, CableWorld, CableFAX, Communications Technology Communications, Engineering & Design (CED) magazine and the Broadband Direct, IP and xOD Capsule newsletters Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Digital Media Digital TV Design Line Digital Video Magazine Digital Video Professionals Association (DVPA) DSL Prime

 

Electronic Design, strategy and News (EDN) Emerging Media Dynamics and the IP Media Monitor newsletter FierceIPTV Information Gatekeepers Inc (IGI) International Engineering Consortium (IEC) Internet Video Magazine Informa Telecoms & Media ipTV News Lyra Research's DTV View MRG Multimedia Research Group Multichannel News New Video Technology OSP Magazine Screen Digest

 

SNL Kagan Streaming Media.com Studio Daily Telco Media News and The Bridge Telecommunications Magazine Telephony Online The Carmel Group The 451 Group TVOver.net TV Predications TV Technology This Week In Consumer Electronics (TWICE) United States Telecom Association (USTA) and www.dailylead.com/news/USTELECOM/ Via Satellite Viodi View Newsletter

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