Being IPDR now part of the TM Forum Interface Program, the IPDR Compliant Program will be included in the general Interface Program Certification Process. The team is currently working on it and this website will be updated as soon as the new certification process will be available. For the time being, as a reference, here below the description of the original IPDR Compliant Program.
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IPDR Compliant™ Program
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IPDR Compliant™ Vendors & Products
IPDR Compliant™ Program Overview
Benefits for Participants and Buyers
Why Become IPDR Compliant™
Future Testing Schedule
Technical Requirements
IPDR Compliant™ Program Overview
In order for companies to have their products considered to be IPDR Compliant™ systems they must have demonstrated the ability to interoperate with a variety of other IPDR Compliant™ systems under several light-usage real-world scenarios. It is a requirement that companies must use a shipping, production version of their product for the testing and the configuration used for testing must be available to product purchasers at the time of test. The exact requirements of IPDR Compliance vary according to the type of the vendor. The following describes the vendor types and their requirements:
"Producer" systems such as mediation packages have demonstrated the ability to monitor usage of one or more classes of applications: Voice Over IP, Streaming Media (aka Video On Demand), and Wireless Applications, and to generate detail records compliant with the current IPDR.org NDM-U specification. These records have been successfully read and processed by multiple "Consumer" systems in a vendor-neutral environment overseen by designated IPDR.org observers.
"Consumer" systems such as billing packages have demonstrated the ability to ingest IPDR detail records of one or more classes of applications such as Voice Over IP, Streaming Media (a.k.a. Video On Demand), and Wireless Applications, formatted according to the current IPDR NDM-U specification as supplied by multiple "Producer" systems. The "Consumer" systems have demonstrated appropriate business processing in a vendor-neutral environment overseen by designated IPDR.org observers.
IPDR.org maintains a list of upcoming testing events and observers. IPDR.org observers are appointed by the IPDR.org Technical Director as part of the scheduling of the observation. At the discretion of IPDR.org, compliance is subject to yearly review and re-testing in accordance with the current release of the NDM-U specification and compliant software. IPDR.org members in good standing will have priority in scheduling compliance testing with IPDR.org observers.
For complete information download the document IPDR Compliant™ Program .
Benefits for Participants and Buyers
The IPDR Compliant™ program provides the following benefits for participants and buyers:
- Provides a "buyer's guide" for purchasers
- Standard spec-sheet permits apples-apples comparisons
- Evaluates real-world result: interoperability
- Cheap and easy enrollment and testing for vendors
Why Become IPDR Compliant™
IPDR Compliant™ status is the only way to identify companies which have had their next-generation services' products independently tested and verified by the experts at IPDR.org. IPDR Compliant™ testing verifies IPDR record interoperability (in accordance with the Network Data Management - Usage (NDM_U) specification), for next-generation services in a multi-company environment.
IPDR.org permits vendors who have demonstrated interoperability using a current version of the NDM-U specification to utilize the IPDR Compliant™ logo in advertising and packaging of their products and/or services.
Future Testing Schedule
The next testing session has not yet been scheduled. If your company is interested in becoming IPDR Compliant™, please send a message to Antonio Plutino via email at aplutino@tmforum.org
Find out more about the Compliant Program using the links below:
The "IPDR Compliant" term/logo is a registered trademark of IPDR.org, and is subject to restricted use (trademark pending). When using the "IPDR Compliant" logo and/or term, companies must create and publicly post an "IPDR Compliance Statement" which specifies the NDM-U version and specific services for which they were successfully tested (see template for format). When the logo is used, the IPDR Compliance Statement must be referenced along with instructions on how to obtain a copy of it. Failure to comply with any terms of the IPDR Compliant program may result in loss of IPDR Compliant status and legal recourse.