Moving IPSF Framework Forward

A key area of focus in Dinard and subsequent meetings will be the design of facile means for web application developers to take advantage of the capabilities offered by the IPsphere framework. There are many examples of how today’s developers are constrained in their ability to innovate and create richer experiences (try watching a full screen video live over your broadband connection). While the IPsphere framework provides the platform for multi-stakeholder collaboration necessary to overcome these constraints in the technical sense, the framework must also be able to be exercised in ways that are familiar to the web application developer community.

If we don’t get this right we’ll have solved the technical constraints, but have erected procedural constraints – the Forum can’t and won’t allow that to happen. The IPSF Board is taking steps right now to diversify membership and participation into the web service provider and application developer communities to ensure the framework is readily leveragable to extend their innovation abilities.

–Kevin Dillon, Chairman IPsphere Forum

Technorati tags:  web application, multi-stakeholder, IPsphere Framework

IPSF Foundation Specification

Take a look at the IPsphere Forum foundation specification, known as our “Release 1 Technical Specification”, on our website.  This document is THE reference to understand how the IPsphere framework has been architected and how it operates. It’s a very readable specification and spells out how Forum members have leveraged SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) principles to create a framework that enables ANY service provider in the supply chain to offer service ELEMENTS for use in a retail service experience, and that enables retail service providers to ORCHESTRATE the overall service experience. 

There is, of course, further work underway right now in the IPSF to build upon this foundation specification. For instance, the means by which IPsphere framework can inter-work with IMS/NGN network resources has recently exited our straw ballot process and is anticipated to be published in the near future. Detailed contributions on a range of additional topics areas are in advanced stages and will be considered at length during our Dinard (France Telecom sponsored) meeting at the end of this month. More on these topics here in Stratosphere post-Dinard! 

–Kevin Dillon, Chairman IPsphere Forum

Technorati tags:  SOA, IMS, NGN

Welcome to Stratosphere

Welcome to Stratosphere, the place for up-to-date, topical, informal news and views from the executives of the IPsphere Forum. Stratosphere kicks off today with the launch of our new website and is intended to be a timely source of information for both members and non-members.

IPsphere Forum members are working to design, publish and implement an open standard framework for network-enabled services to be readily and rapidly assembled using the competencies and technology resources of multiple stakeholders. This framework will facilitate unprecedented cooperation between – and among – Web and Telco service providers, creating what will, in effect, be an ecosystem which enables unfettered innovation in online experiences.

For instance, one of the IPsphere Forum’s key use cases is known as “content delivery” – in the use case the IPsphere framework provides the mechanism for content provider and network operator cooperation to cost effectively deliver high quality, full screen video-based applications.

–Kevin Dillon, Chairman IPsphere Forum

Technorati tags: Web 2.0, Telco 2.0, IPsphere Forum, service provider, network operator, content delivery