 of the primary authors of the SIP devices with respect to functional requirements, protocol. Each of these events are hosted by a different vendor company at locations around protocol support, the world, and have been a key component in the speed at which new SIP-based products configuration and and services have entered the marketplace. "SIP interoperability events have helped to ensure management. To read more got to the that SIP products from different vendors can work together, simplifying the task of building information under the robust and feature-rich IP telephony and multimedia networks. I am very pleased that the SIP working groups section Forum has agreed to take over the incresingly large job of coordinating the SIPit or use this link. interoperability events, said Mr. Schulzrinne. "By working with each host company to coordinate planning and execution, I know the SIP Forum will insure continuity and quality in future events." SIPit interoperability events are open to any organization developing SIP-based products and prototypes. They offer a non-competitive environment for testing the interoperation of SIP-based devices. Experiences and knowledge from these events are fed back into the IETF standardization process. Since results from these events are confidential, vendors can use the knowledge gained to help debug their prototypes and products, discovering interoperability problems early in the development process. you find the SIPit information by following this link. The readers might find it interesting to read the full copyright statement in the last page of this RFC. Each RFC contains such a statement at the end. Another interesting aspect of each RFC is that they all are written in textual format. Therefore, if they include any figures they are always drawn using textual characters. This RFC can be downloaded from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2976.txt Network Working Group S. Donovan Request for Comments: 2976 dynamicsoft Category: Standards Track October 2000 The SIP INFO Method Status of this 