Organization
The SINTESIO operates under the “SI-NGN Foundation.The foundation is established and supported by:
Founders:
- SIST – Slovenian Institute for Standardization
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- University of Ljubljana/FE – Laboratory for Telecommunications
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Members:
Supporting organizations:
- Ministry of the Economy/DG Electronic communications
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- Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology/ DG Information society
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- APEK – Agency for Post and Electronic Communications
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Principles of operation
- Not-for-profit
- Openness
- Neutrality
- Professionalism (of services)
- Sophisticated/Permanent infrastructure
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Financing
The following sources of finance are envisaged :
- Participants’ fees to cover costs
- Private & Public funding
- Sponsoring
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Intellectual Property Rights
Disclaimer: The IPR for the test automation scripts’ implementation belongs to the SINTESIO, contributions to standards publicly available under ETSI IPR policies;
Confidentiality and rules of engagement
The organizer and the participants of the interoperability test events shall agree that they will NOT separately disclose, comment on, or otherwise characterize the results of the testing event, or the operation of any individual vendor's equipment. The overall, general results will be fed back into the standards process. Specific test results that may significantly contribute to the standardization can be reported to standardization bodies, on the condition that the involved participant agrees to the publication. In such cases, the actual names or the relations to the participant involved in the generation of the results will be hidden in such specific reports.
Marketing or sales personnel and other observers are not allowed to be present during the testing.
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