Transcript UPnP State of the Union 2003

UPnP™ Forum
State of the Union
Toby Nixon
Steering Committee Chair
UPnP Forum
UPnP Forum Goals
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In an open environment, develop or
profile standards for device schemas
and protocols based on TCP/IP and XML
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Balance protection of member
investment in technology with
confidence in ability to implement under
royalty-free terms
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Encourage rapid and broad industry
deployment of compliant devices
Four Years and Going Strong!
10/99
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5/01
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10/01
11/01
11/01
Q1/02
Forum officially formed 06/02
UPnP arch. finalized
07/02
WinMe ships with UPnP
10/02
GW devices announced
UPnP toolkits announced
WinXP ships with UPnP 11/02
UIC launched
1/03
GW standard published
UPnP toolkits & WinCE Q1/03
ships
10/03
Q1/02 Logoed GW devices ship
AV standards published
Printer & scanner
standards published
Member Agreement
Amendment allows
creation of Architecture
Committee
Basic Device published
Architecture Committee
formed
Logoed AV devices
Wireless Access Point
standard published
Members by Country
Europe (92)
Austria (2)
Belgium (4)
Denmark (3)
France (18)
Germany (19)
Hungary (1)
Ireland (3)
Italy (5)
Latin America (3)
Brazil (1)
Chile (1)
Columbia (1)
Netherlands (3)
Poland (1)
Russia (1)
Spain (3)
Sweden (8)
Switzerland (2)
UK (19)
North America (378)
Canada (23)
USA (355)
Asia (136)
China (16)
Hong Kong (4)
India (9)
Japan (35)
Korea (24)
Singapore (4)
Taiwan (44)
Australia (5)
Australia (3)
New Zealand (2)
Middle East (11)
Israel (11)
631
Total 625 Member Companies
(was 515 in October, 2002)
As of September 30, 2003
Member Geographies
Percentage of Member Companies by Region
1.8%
21.8%
0.8%
14.7%
60.5%
Asia
Australia
Europe
Latin America
North America
Middle East
0.5%
631
Total 625 Member Companies
As of September 30, 2003
Working Committees
Working Committee Activity by Reflector Subscription
Remote I/O
120
QoS
135
Security
181
Imaging
218
Automation
249
Gateway
381
AV
413
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500
Number of Reflector Subscribers
As of September 30, 2003
Traffic to Web Site
Unique User Sessions
Web Usage by Session
50000
40000
30000
20000
10000
0
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Usage by Session 38213 42982 40594 36460 42478 39724 42589 42777 43699 40133 43199 39712 31861
User sessions are tracked per IP Address and must register at least
one hit to be counted
Leadership and Administration
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Thanks to Salim AbiEzzi
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Thanks to Arlene Binuya Murray
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Chair of Steering Committee 1999-2003
Forum Administrator Extraordinaire!
New Forum Administrator
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VTM, Inc. (www.vtm-inc.com)
Karen Reff ([email protected])
Steering Committee Members
Axis 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 Member
Forum Officers
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Steering Committee (elected October 2003)
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Technical Committee (elected October 2003)
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Chair: Shivaun Albright (HP)
Legal Committee (elected in November 2003)
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Chair: John Ritchie (Intel)
Vice Chair: Tom McGee (Philips)
Architecture Committee (election in January 2004)
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Chair: Toby Nixon (Microsoft)
Vice Chair: John Gildred (Pioneer)
Chair: Warren Whaley (Canon)
Vice Chair: Dale Mohlenhoff (Thomson)
Member Relations Committee (elected October 2003)
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Chair: Rich Geasey (Lantronix)
Vice Chair: Stephen Whalley (Intel)
Working Committees
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Active
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Work Completed
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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)
Basic Device – Scott Smyers (Sony)
Less Active / On Hold
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Appliances
Camera
Electronic Picture Frame
Mobile Devices
UPnP v1 is Rock Solid
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Big investments went into v1
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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
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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
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Published DCPs
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Internet Gateway
Media Server / Media Renderer
Printer
Scanner
Basic Device
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
Wireless Access Point
Works in progress
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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
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32 member companies
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Number of certified products more than
doubled since 2002
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Division of marketing responsibility
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UIC – external/consumer communication
MRC – Forum recruitment and member
programs
More from UIC later today
Relationships
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DSL Forum – Internet Gateway
Digital Home Working Group
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Consumer Electronics Association
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Mike Stelts to address us Wednesday
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
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Editorial Update (v1.0.1)
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Technical Update (v1.1)
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Web Services Alignment (v2.0)
Version 1.0.1
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A single consolidated reference for UPnP
Device Architecture version 1.0
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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
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Steering Committee task force identified
technical enhancements to v1.0
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Technical Committee now developing solutions
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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
Semiweekly meetings or teleconferences
Planned availability mid-2004
Why Consider UPnP v2?
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Unify protocols so that a single stack
communicates with both UPnP devices
and Web services
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Unify development tools for UPnP devices
and Web services
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Unify developer experience and
knowledge
Version 2 Status
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Web Services specs are still evolving
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Forum will continue evaluation of Web
Services alignment in the future
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Don’t wait – deploy v1 products now!
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Long term industry commitment to v1
support
Looking Ahead
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What’s coming?
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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
Foundation of the Connected Home