Global forum for info on IP technology and regulation

Stuart Corner
Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:19

IT Industry - Market

The Global IP Alliance has released its initial report and established "an ongoing process to allow government, industry and consumers to obtain current information on the state of global IP-based communications technology and regulation." Hosting government regulators from more than 25 countries in Washington DC the Alliance officially launched public access to the Global IP Policy Matrix (http://www.ipall.org/matrix) and announced a new process enabling those following IP technology and regulation to share information on VoIP treatment around the world, via its 'wiki' (available at http://www.globalipalliance.net/).

A wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wikis support hyperlinks and have a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly. More details at http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki

The Global IP Alliance (http://www.ipall.org/) bills itself as "an international consortium of IP-based communications services and applications providers committed to realising the promise of IP communications and of interconnecting IP-based communications providers."