Eight Good Reasons Why You Should Join IMTC
By joining forces and combining resources to collaborate, IMTC members gain multiple benefits:
- Test with the best: Ability to participate in engineering interoperability tests and bring standards-compliant products to market earlier
- Get mandate to shape the industry: Members get to provide input and approve key IMTC technical specifications and recommendations
- Don’t stay behind: By joining IMTC, you ensure that your organization’s products are included in the interoperability testing process
- Enjoy pioneering rights: Early access to standards related data and the current trends in multimedia Telecommunications
- Empower your organization: By supporting the IMTC’s mission, you help ensure that interoperable products and services enter the marketplace. This, in turn, further accelerates the market and helps you and your organization stay relevant
- Gain industry insight: Knowledge of products developed by other IMTC members
- Voice your opinion: the IMTC gives you a platform to discuss and share issues related to implementing and improving the standards with other organizations who share the same interest
- Make an impact: Industry and media visibility through IMTC sponsored marketing events and educational programs
IMTC TIERED MEMBERSHIP MATRIX
| MEMBER BENEFITS | FULL MEMBER |
NONPROFIT & UNIVERSITY |
PARTICIPANT |
| Contribute to IMTC Leadership and Direct Membership Involvement | |||
| Eligibility to vote in all BoD elections and other matters that may come before the memberhship | x | ||
| Eligibility for nomination and service on the BoD | x | ||
| Eligibility for nomination and service as an Officer | x | Treasurer, Secretary | Treasurer, Secretary |
| Eligibility to act as chair and fully Participate in MetadataNEW PSS and SIP ParityNEW Activity Groups | x | ||
| Eligibility to act as chair and fully participate in all other Activity Groups | x | x | x |
| Eligibility to Chair Board Advisory Committees | x | ||
| Shape IMTC Specification Input Benefits | |||
| Propose work items | x | x | x |
| Input requirements documents, recommended specifications and other document evolution; | x | x | x |
| Input to Test Specification evolution | x | x | x |
| Access to all draft and published documents of IMTC | x | x | x |
| Vote on Specification(s) and document approval | x | x | x |
| Direct Membership Involvement | |||
| Vote in Board of Director Elections | x | ||
| Propose Activity Groups | x | x | x |
| Vote on matters as they come before membership | x | ||
| Access to e-mail reflectors | x | x | x |
| Participate in Activity Group Meetings and activities using IOTzilla (e.g. PSS) | x | ||
| Participate in all other Activity Group Meetings and activities | x | x | x |
| Participate in other TBD Committee Meetings and activities (e.g. Content Delivery) | x | x | x |
| Attend Forum Events | x | Special Rate |
Special Rate |
| Attend Interoperability events | x | ||
| Booth Space Included with Attendance at SuperOp! | x | ||
| Pre-release access to IMTC documents | x | x | x |
| Obtain Reference Implementations, Test Suites | x | x | x |
| Obtain published IMTC documents | x | x | x |
| Mention in Press Releases (Alphabetical) | x | x | x |
| Receive Newsletter | x | x | x |
| Receive IMTC Marketing Benefits | |||
| Listing on IMTC Web Site with company link | x | ||
| Listing on IMTC Web Site – no company link | x | x | |
| Participate in Marketing events | x | ||
| Receive Marketing ‘tool kit | x | ||
| Access to IMTC Historical Archive | x | ||
| Annual Dues | $15,500 | $1000 | No Dues |
