IPSPHERE Forum Organization
The IPsphere Forum is an open, international, industry-wide, pro-competitive non-profit association dedicated to delivering an enhanced commercial framework for IP services. IPSF is managed by an independent management services company, Association Management Solutions, LLC. The Forum membership is comprised of two membership levels — Full and Associate — and is governed by a Board of Directors who are elected for two year terms by the Full members. Chairs and Vice-Chairs of each working group are nominated by the membership and appointed by the Board. Created by the IPSF, the IPsphere Working Groups have been established to help create the mechanisms essential to the evolution of the IPsphere. Existing standards will be leveraged to the maximum extent possible, and new standards will be taken to the appropriate standards bodies for ratification.
Work Program Committee (WPC)
Charter: WPC sets and manages the Forum technical work program acting as a plenary for working group. The WPC issues Calls for Contributions and allocates these to working groups; the WPC also reviews and decides on proposals submitted by working groups including: requests for straw ballots and requests for Final ballots.
Chair: Tom Walsh, 
Vice Chair: Mike Lerer, 
Business Dimensions Working Group (BDWG)
Charter: BDWG is responsible for primacy of business aspects in the IPsphere Forum - through development & tuning of overall "business framework" reconciling the perspectives of both service users and service providers, and the parsing of member contributed (& board sanctioned) use cases through the "business framework" and into RAWG "technical framework".
Chair: Kevin Dillon, 
Vice Chair: TBD
Reference Architecture Working Group (RAWG)
Charter: RAWG is responsible for the technical framework of the IPsphere Forum - through development & tuning of overall reference architecture & associated specifications. Technical framework is tuned via ongoing validation against IPsphere BDWG "use cases", IPsphere RIWG "execution framework", and also against activities underway in other industry standards communities.
Chair: Ian Stanley, 
Vice Chair: TBD
Reference Implementation Working Group (RIWG)
Charter: Prove and tune technical framework via actual implementation, also showcase to promote & evangelize IPsphere functionality.
Chair: Matthew Ford, 
Vice-Chair: Richard Bayliss, 
Service Provider Council (SPC)
Charter: To provide requirements, architectural direction and best common practices for IPSF; review any new work items in the light of example operational aspects; stimulate the generation of meaningful use cases and contributions for providers; and discuss technologies for achieving commercial agreements or providing business opportunities between service providers.
Chair: Keith Dickerson, 
Vice-Chair: TBD
Marketing Committee (MC)
Charter: Drive awareness of the issues being addressed within the IPSF - framed in “Business of IP” context; articulate & promote the value of IPSF activities to key constituents; promote value of membership in the IPSF.
Chair: Donal Morris, 
Vice-Chair: Todd Shimizu, 
Recruitment Committee
Charter: To promote IPsphere Forum membership recruitment and retention through the development of stakeholder-specific value propositions and programs aimed at member satisfaction, member prospect outreach, and overall IPsphere Forum awareness among industry influencers.
Chair: Todd Shimizu, 
Vice-Chair North America: Dave Olisar, 
Vice-Chair Europe: Mat Ford, 
Vice-Chair Asia: Kevin Dillon, 
Secretariat
The IPsphere Forum is managed by Association Management Solutions, LLC based in Fremont, California. To reach a member of the IPsphere Forum staff please call +1.510.492.4045 or email one of the staff members below.
Executive Director: Laura Nugent, 
Assiciation Coordinator: Margaret Thornberry, 
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