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UPnP™ Forum State of the Union. Toby Nixon Steering Committee Chair UPnP Forum . UPnP Forum Goals. In an open environment, develop or profile standards for device schemas and protocols based on TCP/IP and XML
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UPnP™ Forum State of the Union Toby Nixon Steering Committee Chair UPnP Forum
UPnP Forum Goals • In an open environment, develop or profile standards for device schemas and protocols based on TCP/IP and XML • Balance protection of member investment in technology with confidence in ability to implement under royalty-free terms • Encourage rapid and broad industry deployment of compliant devices
10/99 Forum officially formed 6/00 UPnP arch. finalized 6/00 WinMe ships with UPnP 5/01 GW devices announced 5/01 UPnP toolkits announced 10/01WinXP ships with UPnP 11/01 UIC launched 11/01 GW standard published Q1/02 UPnP toolkits & WinCE ships Q1/02 Logoed GW devices ship 06/02AV standards published 07/02 Printer & scanner standards published 10/02 Member Agreement Amendment allows creation of Architecture Committee 11/02 Basic Device published 1/03 Architecture Committee formed Q1/03 Logoed AV devices 10/03 Wireless Access Point standard published Four Years and Going Strong!
Members by Country North America (378) Canada (23) USA (355) Asia (136) China (16) Korea (24) Hong Kong (4) Singapore (4) India (9) Taiwan (44) Japan (35) Australia (5) Australia (3) New Zealand (2) Middle East (11) Israel (11) Europe (92) Austria (2) Netherlands (3) Belgium (4) Poland (1) Denmark (3) Russia (1) France (18) Spain (3) Germany (19) Sweden (8) Hungary (1) Switzerland (2) Ireland (3) UK (19) Italy (5) Latin America (3) Brazil (1) Chile (1) Columbia (1) 631 Total 625 Member Companies (was 515 in October, 2002) As of September 30, 2003
Member Geographies Percentage of Member Companies by Region 631 Total 625 Member Companies As of September 30, 2003
Working Committees Working Committee Activity by Reflector Subscription Number of Reflector Subscribers As of September 30, 2003
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Leadership and Administration • Thanks to Salim AbiEzzi • Chair of Steering Committee 1999-2003 • Thanks to Arlene Binuya Murray • Forum Administrator Extraordinaire! • New Forum Administrator • VTM, Inc. (www.vtm-inc.com) • Karen Reff (upnpadmin@forum.upnp.org)
Steering Committee Members Microsoft Mitsubishi Electric Philips Electronics Pelco Pioneer Ricoh Samsung Siemens AG Sony Thomson Axis Communications Broadcom Canon Echelon HP IBM Intel Lantronix LG Electronics Metro Link New Steering Committee Member
Forum Officers • Steering Committee (elected October 2003) • Chair: Toby Nixon (Microsoft) • Vice Chair: John Gildred (Pioneer) • Technical Committee (elected October 2003) • Chair: John Ritchie (Intel) • Vice Chair: Tom McGee (Philips) • Architecture Committee (election in January 2004) • Chair: Shivaun Albright (HP) • Legal Committee (elected in November 2003) • Chair: Warren Whaley (Canon) • Vice Chair: Dale Mohlenhoff (Thomson) • Member Relations Committee (elected October 2003) • Chair: Rich Geasey (Lantronix) • Vice Chair: Stephen Whalley (Intel)
Working Committees • Active • AV – John Ritchie (Intel), Geert Knapen (Philips) • Gateway – Ulhas Warrier (Intel), Trevor Freeman (Microsoft) • Home Automation – Hans Langels (Siemens AG) • Printing and Imaging – Shivaun Albright (HP) • QOS – Narm Gadiraju (Intel), Daryl Hlasny (Sharp) • Remote I/O – Mark Walker (Intel), Markus Wischy (Siemens) • Security – Victor Lortz (Intel) • Enhanced Discovery and Eventing – Shivaun Albright (HP), Andrew Donoho (IBM) • Work Completed • Basic Device – Scott Smyers (Sony) • Less Active / On Hold • Appliances • Camera • Electronic Picture Frame • Mobile Devices
UPnP v1 is Rock Solid • Big investments went into v1 • Fruition of three years of work • Many certified devices deployed • Availability of commercial tools for more than a dozen vendors for many OS and embedded platforms • Refinements based on deployment experience • Operating system support • Built in to Windows Me, XP, CE .NET & future versions • More tomorrow on Microsoft’s continued investment and commitment to UPnP v1 • Source code available for Linux
Device Control Protocols • Published DCPs • Internet Gateway • Media Server / Media Renderer • Printer • Scanner • Basic Device • Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning • Wireless Access Point • Works in progress • Device Security / Security Console – 10-day SC vote in progress • Lighting – 10-day SC vote in progress • Digital Security Camera – 10-day SC vote pending • Many other home automation specs • Quality of Service • Remote I/O • More that we’ll hear about today
UPnP Implementers Corporation • 32 member companies • Number of certified products more than doubled since 2002 • Division of marketing responsibility • UIC – external/consumer communication • MRC – Forum recruitment and member programs • More from UIC later today
Relationships • DSL Forum – Internet Gateway • Digital Home Working Group • Mike Stelts to address us Wednesday • Consumer Electronics Association • R7.4 – VHN, R7.6 – DENi • Bill Rose to address us later today • CableLabs - QoS • International Committee for Information Technology Standards V2 – IT Access Devices • National Association of Convenience Stores • And more…
Architecture Developments • Editorial Update (v1.0.1) • Technical Update (v1.1) • Web Services Alignment (v2.0)
Version 1.0.1 • A single consolidated reference for UPnP Device Architecture version 1.0 • Incorporate Internet Drafts such as HTTPU, HTTPMU, SSDP, GENA, FXPP, Auto-IP • Incorporate Implementation Guide • Incorporate Technical Committee issue decisions • Usability: Table of contents, Index, etc. • Planned availability January, 2004
Version 1.1 • Steering Committee task force identified technical enhancements to v1.0 • Enterprise-friendly, wireless-friendly discovery • Complex and other extended datatypes • Require SOAP 1.1 and HTTP 1.1 compliance • Must be backwards compatible with v1.0 • Technical Committee now developing solutions • Semiweekly meetings or teleconferences • Planned availability mid-2004
Why Consider UPnP v2? • Unify protocols so that a single stack communicates with both UPnP devices and Web services • Unify development tools for UPnP devices and Web services • Unify developer experience and knowledge
Version 2 Status • Web Services specs are still evolving • Forum will continue evaluation of Web Services alignment in the future • Don’t wait – deploy v1 products now! • Long term industry commitment to v1 support
Looking Ahead • What’s coming? • Enhanced architecture • More DCPs • Development platforms • More products • Home Portal - www.homeportal.com • Various companies will present their visions tomorrow
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