UPnP™ Forum State of the Union

Toby NixonSteering 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

Four Years and Going Strong!

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

10/01 WinXP ships with UPnP

11/01 UIC launched

11/01 GW standard published

Q1/02 UPnP toolkits & WinCE ships

Q1/02 Logoed GW devices ship

06/02 AV 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

Members by CountryEurope (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)

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)

Total 625 Member Companies (was 515 in October, 2002)

As of September 30, 2003

631631

Member Geographies

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Asia

Australia

Europe

Latin America

North America

Middle East

Total 625 Member Companies

Percentage of Member Companies by Region

As of September 30, 2003

631631

Working Committees

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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 MembersAxis Communications

Broadcom

Canon

Echelon

HP

IBM

Intel

Lantronix

LG Electronics

Metro Link

Microsoft

Mitsubishi Electric

Philips Electronics

Pelco

Pioneer

Ricoh

Samsung

Siemens AG

Sony

Thomson

New Steering Committee MemberNew 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

It is through your contributions that UPnP

technology will deliver on its promises and potential

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