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December 2012	The MSF is an Event Partner at the layer123 LTE/EPC & Converged Mobile Summit in London. The RCS VoLTE IOT results are also presented at the conference.
November 2012	The RCS VoLTE IOT event White Paper is finalised, approved by the event Task Force and published. The RCS VoLTE IOT results are presented at Informa's Rich Communication Services Conference in Berlin, Germany RCS VoLTE IOT results presented at the Fuseco Forum in Berlin, Germany MSF attends the IMS Asia Conference in Singapore to present the RCS VoLTE IOT results.
October 2012	The RCS VoLTE event is successfully completed. At the Slovenian site, an Operator workshop is also held ("RCS VoLTE and beyond") which includes a visit to the lab and a demo of RCS VoLE calls. The MSF holds its 58th Technical Meeting in Singapore. Feedback from the RCS VoLTE IOT event is presented and the event White Paper is reviewed. NCS announce that it intends to host an IOT event in December to look at ETS (Emergency Telecommunications Services) calls over an IP-NNI based on ATIS PTSC specifications.
September 2012	The MSF attends the ETSI TC-INT #18 meeting in Sophia Antipolis, France. The RCS VoLTE IOT event begins on September 24th.
July 2012	The MSF holds its 57th Technical Meeting in Los Angeles, California. The meeting agenda is dominated by RCS VoLTE related items, in particular finalising test plans for the event. In addition, test plans are also presnted in relation to the IP-NNI activity with ATIS PTSC.
June 2012	MSF endorses the IPv6 World Congress in Brussels, Belgium.
April 2012	The MSF/ETSI/GSMA launch a press release to announce the RCS VoLTE IOT event. The event will be hosted by CMCC in Beijing, China and the Sintesio facility in Knanj, Slovenia and will be held in Sept/Oct 2012.
February 2012	MSF attends the Mobile World Asia 2012 conference in Shanghai, China. Wang Jing of CMCC presents the results of VoLTE Interoperability Event with the release of the event White Paper. The MSF holds its 55th Technical Meeting in Washington, DC. MSF discusses next steps for VoLTE related testing. ETSI CTI attend the meeting to discuss collaboration in 2012 for RCS and VoLTE related testing. Following the DC meeting a Task Force is comprising members of MSF, ETSI and GSMA to organise a joint IOT event focussing on RCS and VoLTE testing. The event endorses a number of GSM PRDs and reflects the common focus of the three partner organisations.
January 2012	In response to the liaison statement sent from MSF to ATIS followint the VoLTE IOT event, it is agreed to form a joint MSF-ATIS Task Force to look at IP-NNI testing based on ATIS PTSC specifications.
December 2011	The MSF participates as an Event partner at the the Layer123 LTE/EPC & Converged Mobile conference in London, UK. At the conference, GSMA's Senior Director of Technology speaks about the current status of VoLTE and the importance of IOT events and MSF's CTO & TC Chairpresents the VoLTE IOT results. ETSI and MSF join forces at the conference to distribute the official VoLTE IOT White Paper and advertise their intended colloboration in 2012 for VoLTE/RCS EPC Conformance and NNI/IPX Testing. In addition, the GSMA endorses the MSF/ETSI collaboration in working toward a VoLTE/RCS IOT event.
November 2011	MSF attends the LTE North America Event in Dallas, Texas and formally announces the results of VoLTE Interoperability Event with the release of the event White Paper. The MSF distributes the White Paper to attending delegates. MSF BOD member Jim McEachern (Genband) takes part in a panel discussion. The MSF sends liaisons to its partner fora announcing the results of the VoLTE IOT events, including the official White Paper and requesting input for the scope of a future VoLTE IOT event. MSF attends the i3Forum Workshop on QOS in Middletown, New Jersey. TC Vice-Chair Jesus Trujillo (Cisco) presents MSF comments on the recent i3Forum White Paper on QOS Monitoring.
October 2011	The MSF holds its 54th Technical Meeting in Beijing, China. The results of the VoLTE IOT are presented and the event White Paper is finalized. MSF discusses next steps for VoLTE related testing. Giulio Maggiore (Chair of ETSI TC-INT) attends to discuss topics for collaboration in 2012, including VoLTE and RCS related testing.
September 2011	The MSF successfully completes its VoLTE IOT event, September 12-30, with network testing between two countries on two continents (Vodafone Test and Innovation Center in Dusseldorf, Germany; China Mobile Research Insitute in Beijing, China). The event was backed by the GSMA, a number of whose specifications were endorsed by the MSF and tested in the event.
August 2011	MSF holds its 53rd Technical Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA. Straw ballot comment resolution is carried out on the VoLTE test plans to enable their completion for the IOT event in September. An initial draft test plan is presented for the S1-MME conformance testing. A draft test plan is presented for the IP-NNI Work Item and a LS is sent to ATIS PTSC NG-CI proposing the formation of a joint task force to collaborate on an IOT event for IP-NNI based on ATIS specifications to be held in 2012. As part of the MSF's ongoing collaboration with other fora, Giulio Maggiore of Telecom Italia and chair of ETSI TC-INT attends as MSF guest. NIST hosts a tour of their nearby facility, home to the NIST-F1 atomic clock, the U.S. national primary time and frequency standard.
July 2011	A new Work Item (WI) is formally agreed to, centered on LTE/EPC Conformance Testing to facilitate deployment of this technology. The WI is led by NIST and supported by Cisco, Genband & JDSU. The initial phase of the work will concentrate on conformance testing of the S1-MME interface between the eNB and MME.
June 2011	The MSF attends the IPv6 World Congress in London. The MSF is an Endorsing Association for the event.
April 2011	The MSF attends the IMS World Forum in Barcelona and participates in a workshop discussing IMS Interoperability testing activities alongside GSMA, ETSI, IMTC and IMS Forum. MSF holds its 52nd Technical Committee Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. Testing Scenarios for VoLTE IOT are finalised. Liaisons from i3Forum presented, providing input on scope for phase II of testing for the N/W Robustness Work Item. Liaison from ITU-T SG13 presented on CDN work within the MSF. Proposal for IOT event in Q4 2011 on IP NNI, focussing on ATIS PTSC NG-CI specifications. A panel session is held to discuss PSC (Public Safety Communications) and is moderated by MSF President, Jim McEachern, with participants from Cisco, JDSU, NIST and Vodafone.
February 2011	The LTE phase II event is re-titled the VoLTE event. MSF Attends the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain to officially announce the joint GSMA/MSF VoLTE IOT Event and participate in a panel session regarding LTE. During the session, a presentation is made on LTE related testing activities within the MSF. MSF Publishes the P-IOT 2010 Event White Paper and liaises the white paper to various fora.
January 2011	MSF holds its 51st Technical Committee Meeting, in Miami, Florida USA. This meeting focused on completing the P-IOT 2010 event white paper and analyzed next steps for performance testing. A joint session was held with ATIS IIF to progress the IPTV IOT event, planned for June 2011. Physical Scenarios for the LTE Phase II Event were presented. A new Work Item is agreed to look at IP based NNI, including both national and internmational NNIs. Liaisons are sent to a number of other fora to inform them of this new Work Item.
November 2010	MSF successfully completes its P-IOT 2010 Event, which was hosted by NCS. Testing took place from November 8-19th and the event focused on the performance management reporting interfaces from SBGs for voice/video/data sessions under varying load conditions.
October 2010	MSF holds its 50th Technical Committee Meeting, in Seoul, Korea. The meeting was hosted by ETRI. KT provided a guest presentation on the status and direction of the telecoms industry in Korea. Coming out of the meeting, an LS was sent to GSMA regarding the planned LTE phase II event.
September 2010	The MSF publishes documents related to the LTE/EPC IOT event.
August 2010	MSF holds its 49th Technical Committee Meeting, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This meeting was co-located with ATIS IIF and included a joint session to discuss the upcoming IPTV IOT event. The MSF TC structure is changed to reflect the new ways of working. All WGs except "Services & Architecture" are disbanded and replaced by project specific ad-hoc teams as identified in the formal Work Items. The SA WG is left as a place holder for contributions not related to new/existing WIs. The MSF BOD formally approves updates to the TC Procedures to reflect the new TC structure.
July 2010	MSF and GSMA sign a Co-operation Agreement to co-operate toward an LTE/EPC IOT event, building upon the previous MSF LTE event held in March 2010. The event will endorse appropriate GSMA specifications to facilitate collaborative work between the two fora and to support the objective of using the IOT event as a means of promoting the deployment of LTE/EPC technology. The agreement also permits co-operation on other topics as and when mutually agreed between GSMA and MSF.
June 2010	MSF formally announces the results of LTE Interoperability Event(LTE IOT)2010 with the release of the LTE IOT Event 2010 White Paper. MSF and ATIS IIF sign an MOU to enable co-operation to avoid duplication of technical work in the area of inter-operability and testing. A second MOU is signed for a planned joint MSF/IIF IPTV IOT event to be held in 2011. MSF attends i3Forum Technical Workshop and MSF Senior Fellow Chris Gallon participates in a panel discussion on QOS related issues.
April 2010	MSF holds its 48th Technical Committee Meeting, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.| 2010 Annual Meeting
March 2010	MSF successfully completes LTE IOT Phase I Event with two weeks of testing, March 15- 26, (24 hours/day) of networked testing between two countries on two continents (Vodafone Test and Innovation Center in Dusseldorf, Germany; China Mobile Research Insitute in Beijing, China). The MSF introduces a formal Work Item sheet to propose new streams of work. The sheet identifies the scope of the work to be completed (essentially Physical Scenarios and related test plans in support of an IOT event) and the companies leading and supporting that work.
January 2010	MSF holds its 47th Technical Committee Meeting, in Vienna, Austria.
September 2009	The MSF attends the i3Forum meeting in Brussels as a reciprocal visit to that made by the i3Forum to the MSF Q3 meeting. Both fora are keen to co-operate in the area of QOS across the NNI.
October 2009	MSF holds its 46th Technical Committee Meeting, in Hong Kong, China.
July 2009	MSF holds its 45th Technical Committee Meeting, in Ottawa, Canada.The i3Forum attends as guests of the MSF.
April 2009	MSF holds its 44th Technical Committee Meeting, in Budapest, Hungary. | 2009 Annual Meeting MSF and ETSI sign a MOU which permits co-operation to avoid duplication of technical work and effort in the area of inter-operability and testing. Following the signing of the MOU, the MSF provides test plans from GMI2008 as input to the ETSI IMS and IPTV Plugtest Events in October 2009 and is a formal partner for the Plugtest events.
February 2009	MSF holds its 43rd Technical Committee Meeting, in San Jose, California, USA.
December 2008	MSF holds its 42nd Technical Committee Meeting, in Nassau, Bahamas | MSF Members Celebrate MSF's 10 Year Anniversary and the successful conclusion of GMI 2008 MSF publishes the Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2008 Event White Paper. Discussions are held regarding ways of working and it is decided that the MSF should re-use architectures and protocols from other fora and concentrate on the writing of Physical Scenarios and test plans toward smaller and more focussed IOT events. One result of this decision is that there will not be a MSF R5 architecture.
October 2008	MSF successfully completes Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2008 with two weeks, October 20-31, (24 hours/day) of networked testing between three countries on three continents (BT/Vodafone - United Kingdom; China Mobile Research Insitute- China; NTT - Japan; Verizon Labs, NCS Labs and UNH-IOL - USA).
September 2008	MSF publishes its Release 4 (R4) archtecture The event included two separate and distinct threads of IPTV testing, namely IMS based IPTV (based on ETSI TISPAN standards)plus initialisation and authentication of IPTV terminals based on ATIS IIF standards. The ATIS IPTV related testing involved collaboration between MSF and ATIS IIF.
July 2008	MSF holds its 41st Technical Committee Meeting, in Dublin, Ireland
June 2008	MSF exhibits at NXTcomm, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. MSF representatives partner with ATIS IIF to discuss IPTV testing. MSF hosts panel discussion on GMI 2008: Testing Interoperability and Delivering Services.
April 2008	MSF holds its 40th Technical Committee Meeting, in Shanghai, China | 2008 Annual Meeting
January 2008	MSF holds its 39th Technical Committee Meeting, in San Francisco, California, USA
October 2007	MSF holds its 38th Technical Committee Meeting, in Seattle, Washington, USA
July 2007	MSF holds its 37th Technical Committee Meeting, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
April 2007	MSF holds its 36th Technical Committee Meeting, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 2007 Annual Meeting
March 2007	MSF hosts the MSF Pavilion and MSF Theater at Spring VON 2007, where MSF experts spoke on a variety or relevant industry topics.
February 2007	MSF President Roger Ward and MSF Interoperability Working Group Chair Andy Huckridge participate in a panel debate session at NetEvents in Evian, France.
January 2007	MSF holds its 35th Technical Committee Meeting, in Hong Kong.
December 2006	MSF formally announces the results of Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2006 with the release of the GMI 2006 White Paper at NetEvents in Hong Kong.
November 2006	MSF holds its 34th Technical Committee Meeting, in San Diego, California, USA, where members celebrate the successful completion of GMI 2006.
October 2006	MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for the ISC interface. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for explicit SIP signaling pinhole control via H.248 as a supplement document of H.248 IA. MSF successfully completes Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2006 with two weeks (24 hours/day) of networked testing between four countries on three continents (BT/Vodafone - United Kingdom; KT Labs/ETRI - Korea; NTT - Japan; Verizon Labs and UNH-IOL - USA). The 26 participating vendors submitted 197 network devices to a total of 98 test cases spread over 8 distinct scenarios, ranging from a nomadic subscriber in a single domain to a full scale test including value added services and roaming over multiple domains, including both MSF R3 and pure IMS networks.
September 2006	MSF exhibits at Fall VON 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for SIP Media Server Interface.
July 2006	MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for Bandwidth Manager TC-2 interface. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for a MSFR3 MGC-2 Interface; H.248 Profile for controlling Trunking Media Gateways. MSF membership approves Media Resource Broker SIP Client Implementation Agreement. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for a MSFR3 SIP Server.
June 2006	MSF exhibits at GLOBALCOMM 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where MSF speakers are well-represented in the conference tracks. MSF holds its 33rd Technical Committee Meeting, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where presenters from Ericsson and Nortel present a tutorial on ENUM, sponsored by Cisco. MSF membership approves MSF Release 3 Architecture. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for Diameter interface to Bandwidth Manager. MSF membership approves Multi-service Access Gateway (UK Market based on ETSI H.248 profile) System Management. MSF membership approves Multi-service Access Gateway Implementation Agreement (UK Market based on ETSI H.248 profile) POTS Message Flows.
May 2006	MSF speakers participate in breakout session "The Role of IMS and FMC" at VON Europe in Stockholm, Sweden. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement of Parlay/OSA API for GMI 2006. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement of Parlay X API for GMI 2006. MSF membership approves Multi-service Access Gateway Implementation Agreement (UK Market based on ETSI H.248 profile). MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for the DB-2 interface. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for the DB-0 Interface.
April 2006	MSF holds its 32nd Technical Committee Meeting, in Berlin, Germany, where presenters from Acme Packet, Cisco, Data Connection, NexTone and Newport Networks deliver "Interconnect and the Role of Session Border Controllers in the Next Generation Networks," an educational session sponsored by Acme Packet and NexTone. MSF membership approves Product Specification MSF Session Border Gateway Requirements.
March 2006	MSF membership approves GMI 2006 Physical Scenarios.
February 2006	MSF formally announces plans for Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2006 at a press release in conjunction with NetEvents in Garmisch, Germany.
January 2006	MSF holds its 31st Technical Committee Meeting, in Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA, where presenters from BT and Operax deliver "Optimising End to End QoS to Develop Better Targeted Service Offerings," an educational session sponsored by Cisco.
October 2005	MSF holds its 30th Technical Committee Meeting, in Nagoya, Japan, where NTT hosts a panel session called "What Carriers Need From Vendors and Standard Bodies to Accomplish Their NGN Vision" with presenters from BT, KT, NTT, Verizon and Vodafone.
September 2005	MSF exhibits at Fall VON 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. MSF panel session "Where Wireline Meets Wireless: The Role of IMS in the Network of the Future" draws enormous crowds.
August 2005	MSF publishes Appendix B - Multi-service Access Gateway (UK Market) – System Management Procedures.
July 2005	MSF publishes Implementation Agreement for Dynamic Policy Control using COPS-PR. MSF holds its 29th Technical Committee Meeting, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
June 2005	MSF publishes IMS Reconciliation White Paper. MSF releases MSF Release 2 Implementation Guidelines and announces 8 companies as early adopters. MSF exhibits at SUPERCOMM 2005 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
April 2005	MSF publishes Multi-service Access Gateway Implementation Agreement (UK Market) - POTS Message Flows. MSF publishes Implementation Agreement for SIP Interface between Service Broker and Application Server MSF holds its 28th Technical Committee Meeting, in Madrid, Spain.
January 2005	MSF holds its 27th Technical Committee Meeting, in San Francisco, California, USA. At this meeting, the MSF announced that the name of the organization has been changed from the Multiservice Switching Forum to the MultiService Forum to more accurately communicate the technical focus of the organization. MSF publishes Implementation Agreement of Parlay X API for GMI 2004 MSF publishes Implementation Agreement of Parlay/OSA API for GMI2004 MSF publishes Implementation Agreement for MGCP, for Voice over IP between a Call Agent and a User Agent - Security Addendum MSF publishes Implementation Agreement for SIP Signalling Security for GMI 2004
December 2004	MSF membership approves MSF Release 2 Architecture.
November 2004	MSF holds its 26th Technical Committee Meeting, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
October 2004	MSF successfully completes Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2004 with two weeks (24 hours/day) of networked testing between four countries on three continents (BTExact - United Kingdom; KT Labs - Korea; NTT - Japan; Qwest Communications Labs - USA). The 28 participating companies tested basic point-to-point VoIP within a single service provider’s network and increased in complexity as Value Added Services, connectivity to the PSTN, and direct connectivity between multiple VoIP carrier networks was demonstrated on a global basis. Video communication was tested in both IPv4 and IPv6 environments.
September 2004	MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for SIP Profile Between UA and Call Agent. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for inter Call Agent SIP Profile. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for SIP Interface Between Call Agent and Service Broker. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for the Interface Between a SIP Call Agent and a Bandwidth Manager.
August 2004	MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for Core SIP Profile for Voice over IP.
July 2004	MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for SIP Media Server Interface. MSF holds its 25th Technical Committee Meeting, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
April 2004	MSF membership approves Multi-service Access Gateway Implementation Agreement. MSF holds its 24th Technical Committee Meeting, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
March 2004	MSF announces plans to collaborate with MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance on two interoperability test events: and MPLS and Frame Relay demonstration at SUPERCOMM 2004, and Global MSF Interoperability 2004.
February 2004	MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for SDP Usage and Codec Negotiation for GMI 2004. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for MGCP Profile for Call Agent to User Agent Interface.
January 2004	MSF exhibits at International SIP 2004 in Paris, France. MSF holds its 23rd Technical Committee meeting, in Singapore.
October 2003	MSF holds its 22nd Technical Committee meeting, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, celebrating MSF's 5th anniversary with The Carriers Program.
July 2003	MSF holds its 21st Technical Committee meeting, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. MSF publishes Service Solutions in Next-Generation Networks technical report.
June 2003	MSF exhibits at SUPERCOMM 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. MSF publishes MSF R2 Service Architecture technical report.
May 2003	MSF membership approves Product Specification Functional Requirements for MSF Trunking Gateway.
April 2003	MSF holds its 20th Technical Committee meeting, in Prestbury, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
March 2003	MSF publishes the Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2002 Event White Paper. MSF publishes Management for Next Generation Multi Service System Networks technical report. MSF publishes Next-Generation VoIP Network Architecture technical report.
February 2003	MSF publishes Quality of Service for Next Generation Voice Over IP Networks technical report.
January 2003	MSF holds its 19th Technical Committee meeting, in Orlando, Florida, USA.
December 2002	Open VoB Forum transitions its technical work on VoIP and VoATM to MSF.
November 2002	MSF successfully completes Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2002, the world's first globally networked test and demonstration of the MSF's Release 1 Architecture, with two weeks (24 hours/day) of networked testing between three continents (BTExact - United Kingdom; NTT - Japan; UNH InterOperability Lab - USA) MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for SIP Profile, for Voice over IP, between a line-side Media Gateway Controller and a Trunks Media Gateway Controller.
October 2002	MSF holds its 18th Technical Committee meeting, in Jeju, South Korea. Alcatel announces that they have adopted the MSF Release 1 Architecture Implementation Guidelines.
September 2002	Cisco, LG Electronics, Marconi Communications, and MetaSwitch announce that they have adopted the MSF Release 1 Architecture Implementation Guidelines.
July 2002	MSF holds its 17th Technical Committee meeting, in Denver, Colorado, USA.
June 2002	MSF exhibits at SUPERCOMM 2002 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for SIP-T Profile for a Media Gateway Controller.
April 2002	MSF holds its 16th Technical Committee meeting, in Rome, Italy. At this meeting, the membership voted to change the name of the Media Control Working Group to the Protocol and Control Working Group (PCWG), and approved new charters for the PCWG and the Architecture Working Group.
March 2002	MSF begins the Supports MSF Release 1 Architecture program.
February 2002	MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for BICC. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for Megaco/H.248 Profile for a Media Gateway Controller/Trunking Gateway using IP trunks. MSF holds its 15th Technical Committee meeting, in Frisco, Texas, USA.  At this meeting, the MSF unveils its plans for the Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) 2002 test event.
December 2001	MSF releases MSF Release 1 Implementation Guidelines.
November 2001	MSF meets for the first time in Asia, holding its 14th Technical Committee meeting, in Osaka, Japan. At this meeting, the membership selects five of the PSTF's scenarios to employ during the end-to-end network interoperability testing planned for 2002.  The selected scenarios pertain tosupporting voice and data servicesover IP, ATM, and TDM networks.
August 2001	MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for MEGACO/H.248 Profile for Media Gateway Controller/Access Gateway using ATM Trunks. MSF membership approves Implementation Agreement for MEGACO/H.248 Profile for Media Gateway Controller/Trunking Gateway using ATM Trunks.
July 2001	MSF holds its 13th Technical Committee meeting, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. At this meeting, the PSTF identifies seven test scenarios to be used in future interoperability trials, and the Architecture Working Group announces compatibility with the 3G wireless environment through further development of the MSF Release 2 Functional Architecture Framework.
May 2001	MSF holds its 12th Technical Committee meeting, in Munich, Germany. At this meeting, the MSF forms the Physical Scenario Task Force (PSTF) in order to ensure MSF efforts are coordinated into a network interoperability-driven work structure.  The PSTF is to develop physical implementation agreements, protocol specifications, and interoperability scenarios to meet the demands of service providers and be consistent with the forthcoming MSF R2 Architecture and existing standards. MSF announces new liaison with International Softswitch Consortium on Legal Intercept (LI) issues to ensure that LI issues are included in MSF's open architecture implementation agreements.
February 2001	MSF and International Softswitch Consortium hold second interoperability test of the Megaco/H.248 protocol at the University of New Hampshire's Interoperability Laboratory in Durham, New Hampshire, USA.
January 2001	MSF holds its 11th Technical Committee meeting, in Redondo Beach, California, USA.
November 2000	MSF holds its 10th Technical Committee meeting, in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
August 2000	MSF holds its 9th Technical Committee meeting, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. MSF and International Softswitch Consortium co-sponsor Megaco/H.248 Interoperability event at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, USA.
May 2000	MSF holds its 8th Technical Committee meeting, in Paris, France. MSF membership approves Multiservice Switching Forum System Architecture Implementation Agreement, commonly known as the MSF Release 1 Architecture.
January 2000	MSF holds its 7th Technical Committee meeting, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
November 1999	MSF holds its 6th Technical Committee meeting, in San Diego, California, USA.
August 1999	MSF holds its 5th Technical Committee meeting, in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
May 1999	MSF holds its first international Technical Committee meeting, in Stockholm, Sweden.
February 1999	MSF holds its 3rd Technical Committee meeting, in Dallas, Texas, USA.
January 1999	MSF holds its 2nd Technical Committee meeting, in San Francisco, California, USA. At this meeting, the Architecture Working Group sets its charter: to develop a functional architecture for multiservice switching systems with a representative set of physical examples. MSF holds an information meeting in Washington, D.C., USA.
December 1998	MSF holds its first Technical Committee meeting, in Orlando, Florida, USA, where work begins on the MSF Release 1 Architecture.
November 1998	MSF releases announcement about its formation. Founding members include AT&T, Alcatel, Ascend Communications, Bellcore, British Telecom, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu Network Communications, Lucent Technologies, MCI WorldCom, Nortel Networks, Siemens, Telecom Italia, Telia AB, and US West.
October 1998	Multiservice Switching Forum is formed as an open-member organization committed to reaching and promoting consensus on implementation of multiservice switching systems.