Posts Tagged: SIP Forum

With the recent partnership between the SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum, the IPv6 Forum joins the SIPit 26 team as an association partner.  The IPv6 Forum has been working with spreading the word about the need for migration to IPv6 for many years and have a mission to “advocate IPv6 by dramatically improving technology, market, and deployment user and industry awareness of IPv6, creating a quality and secure new Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology, embracing a moral responsibility to the world.”

-” It’s high time to move to end 2 end.” says Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum, “IPv6 and SIP are natively designed for
it. The best way around something is to go through it”.

SIPit is a test event organized by the SIP Forum for the realtime communication developers using the IETF Session Initiation Protocol for IP telephony, presence, instant messaging and other applications. SIPit has been organized 25 times around the world, with the upcoming event – number 26 – being organized in Stockholm, Sweden.

-”SIP is currently used on many devices, and it will be used on many new types of things that communicate over IP. All these devices will need addresses that are globally reachable for realtime communication – video, audio, chat and other types of personal communication over an enterprise IP network or the Internet.” says Olle E. Johansson at Edvina, the company that hosts SIPit 26 together with TANDBERG. “There simply won’t be any public IPv4 addresses for all these intelligent things, so it’s important for the SIP industry to embrace, understand and implement the IPv6 protocol everywhere. Using IPv6 will also save time and money that is today used to implement complicated NAT traversal solutions. For a global realtime communication platform, we need a global IP network – and that’s going to be based on IPv6.”

SIPit26 takes place in Kista, north of Stockholm, Sweden May 17-21, 2010. SIPit global web site is at http://www.sipit.net, the event site for SIPit 26 is at http://sipit.edvina.se

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The SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum just announced a partnership to promote interoperability. This is very welcome. While I believe there are many SIP applications that work over a pure IPv6 network, I don’t think all applications handle migration properly. There’s still a lot of experience to build up and guidelines to write.

For SIPit 26, I was hoping we could create automated self tests for a lot of IPv6 tests, like:

• Connecting to a domain URI from IPv4, getting IPv6 host records
• Connecting to a domain, getting multiple SRV records with mixed IPv6 and IPv4
• Setting up a call, getting IPv6 in the SDP over IPv4
• Setting up a call to a domain, finding out that DNS for that domain only has IPv6 glue records
• ICE with dual stacks on one end – which transport will be used
• ICE with dual stacks on both ends – is there transport selection preference?
• Setting up a call from IPv4 only phone, getting only IPv6 addresses – selection of default ALG for IPv6

There are a number of test scenarious that needs to be set up. At SIPit, we have enough developers gathered to do this and at SIPit26 we have the support of .se that has IPv6 as one of the focus areas. Let’s test IPv6 at SIPit!

Read the Press Release from the SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum!

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The SIP Forum is an industry association with members from the leading IP communications companies. Its mission: To advance the adoption of IP communications products and services based on SIP.

The Forum promotes SIP as the technology of choice for the control of real-time multimedia communication sessions throughout the Internet, corporate networks, and wireless networks.

The Forum directs technical activities aimed at achieving high levels of product interoperability, provides information on the benefits and capabilities of SIP, and highlights successful applications and deployments.

Each of our Working Groups has their own mailing list, many of which are open to individual, “Participant” members. Please feel free to join them, or to join the general “discussion” mailing list.

The Forum is open to individual “Participant” members, Academic/Institutional Members, and to corporate “Full Members”. Individual “Participant” and Academic/Institutional membership is free.

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Welcome to SIPit 26 in Sweden – May 17 – 21, 2010! This event is organized by the SIP Forum, hosted by Edvina  in cooperation with TANDBERG, Intertex, Ingate and .se! The IPv6 Forum is an association partner for SIPit26, helping us to add, document and improve our tests for IPv6 and SIP.  SNOM Technologies provide us with phones for all the teams. SIPit is the test event for all SIP products and services – this is where the industry test interoperability, making sure that the products work together across vendors, across networks and across different versions of the Internet Protocol – version 4 and version 6.

Registration is now open – please register here!

If you have any questions about SIPit 26, please mail sipit (at) edvina.net.

Welcome to Kista, the IT valley north of Stockholm

SIPit will be taking place in Kista, the Telecom Valley north of downtown Stockholm. It’s easy to reach with subway and commuter trains from downtown Stockholm. It’s located between Stockholm and the Stockholm airport, Arlanda.

We have a list of hotel recommendations for you. You can choose between staying in Kista, in Sollentuna or in downtown Stockholm. From Stockholm, there’s a 20 minute commute out to Kista. Both Kista and Sollentuna has newly renovated huge shopping malls with food courts. Follow the links on the right hand side.

What is SIPit?

The SIPit, or Session Initiation Protocol Interoperability Test, is a weeklong event where people bring their SIP implementations to ensure they work together. SIPit has been organized by the SIP Forum for over ten years, contributing to greater interoperability between SIP implementations and improvements of the IETF SIP specifications.

Each SIPit is open to anyone with a working SIP implementation. The goal of the events is to refine both the protocol and its implementations. SIPit is a driving force shaping SIP into a globally interoperable protocol for real time Internet communication services. To watch a video presentation of SIPit 25 by Dan York  - click here!

Currently, SIPit is held twice a year. Different companies or organizations host each event, and each host chooses the venue. SIPit 26 is hosted by Edvina in cooperation with Tandberg.

The SIP Forum coordinates these events (Robert Sparks is the current coordinator).

Olle E. Johansson and Robert Sparks

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