WiMedia Alliance

The WiMedia Alliance is an open industry association whose mission is to promote personal-area range wireless connectivity and interoperability among multimedia devices in a networked environment. The not-for-profit Alliance is involved in the development and adoption of standards-based specifications that govern the connection of wireless multimedia devices including application, transport and control profiles and test suites. The WiMedia Alliance also sponsors a certification program to accelerate widespread consumer adoption of "wire-free" solutions. The Board members of WiMedia, who are executives from many leading consumer electronics companies, include Jim Meyer, Alereon's Vice President of Business Development. To learn more about WiMedia, please visit www.wimedia.org.

Digital Content Protection, LLC

Digital Content Protection, LLC (DCP LLC) is the organization that licenses technologies for protecting commercial entertainment content. Its High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a specification developed by Intel Corporation to protect digital entertainment content across the DVI/HDMI interface. The HDCP specification provides a robust, cost-effective and transparent method for transmitting and receiving digital entertainment content to DVI/HDMI-compliant digital displays. In addition, DCP LLC certifies Approved Retransmission Technologies. Tzero's ZeroWire technology was the first such solution to gain recognition by DCP LLC as such an Approved Retransmission Technology. For more on DCP LLC, visit www.digital-cp.com.

European Computer Manufacturer's Assocation (Ecma) International

Since it was founded in 1961, Ecma International has facilitated the timely creation of a wide range of global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Consumer Electronics (CE) standards.

Ecma is a non-profit industry association of technology developers, vendors and users. Industry and other experts work together at Ecma to develop standards. Ecma submits the approved work for approval as ISO, ISO/IEC and ETSI standards and is the inventor and main practitioner of "fast tracking" of specifications through the standardization process in global standards bodies such as the ISO. Publications can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.ecma-international.org. The specifications for UWB in Ecma are ECMA-368 High Rate Ultra Wideband PHY and MAC standard and ECMA-369 MAC-PHY Interface for ECMA-368.

International Organization for Standardization

ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, on the basis of one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system.

ISO is a non-governmental organization: its members are not, as is the case in the United Nations system, delegations of national governments. Nevertheless, ISO occupies a special position between the public and private sectors. This is because, on the one hand, many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are mandated by their government. On the other hand, other members have their roots uniquely in the private sector, having been set up by national partnerships of industry associations. The ISO specification for UWB is ISO/IEC 26907. To learn more about ISO, please visit www.iso.org.