STANDARDS
Procedures & Forms
Access the official procedures, templates, and forms that guide the SCTE Standards Program. These materials support the creation, review, and maintenance of SCTE/ANSI Standards.
Overview
The SCTE Standards Program operates according to procedures approved by the SCTE Board of Directors. The Manual of Operating Procedures aligns with the Essential Requirements for standards developers published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
Project Authorization Form
Submit an Idea for a New Project
Anyone inside or outside the SCTE standards program who wishes to submit an idea for a new project can have it considered by submitting their idea on a Project Authorization Request (PAR) form to the standards staff. Every submission will be considered by the Engineering Committee and, if accepted, assigned to an appropriate Subcommittee for development.
Supporting Materials
Essential documents that consist of downloadable templates, forms and notices for standards development and participation.
Intellectual Property Notice for Meetings
Attendees are reminded of their obligation to abide by the procedures of the SCTE standards organization. These procedures, and appropriate forms, are available at https://scte.org. Participants are obligated to notify SCTE of any patents of which they are personally aware that would be essential to the implementation of an SCTE standard. Participants also agree to abide by all applicable laws, particularly antitrust legislation. Participation in SCTE standards activities does not convey or assign any intellectual property rights from rights holders to SCTE or to participants in SCTE standards activities. Audio or video recording of any portion of an SCTE meeting is prohibited without permission of the secretariat. Attendees unwilling to agree to these terms must leave the meeting.
Policies & Guidelines
Disclaimer
SCTE assumes no responsibility for errors or omission in any documents on this site, and in no event shall SCTE be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the use of this information.
SCTE will on occasion provide links to web sites outside SCTE. SCTE Assumes no responsibility for these sites or for anything that results from visiting them.
Antitrust Guidelines
- SCTE standards meetings must be conducted in a manner that avoids the appearance of conduct which might violate antitrust laws.
- Legal counsel should be consulted prior to any discussions which staff or participants believe could raise antitrust issues.
- There should never be discussions of prohibited topics during standards meetings.
Privacy
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Copyright
Documents which are made available on this web site, unless otherwise noted, may be reproduced, translated, distributed, and made available electronically on condition that this is not done for profit, that no changes are made to the documents, and that SCTE’s rights in the documents are acknowledged. Any requests to reproduce SCTE documents in a manner other than expressly granted, in whole or part, should be submitted to SCTE Standards staff at [email protected].
Documents which are submitted to SCTE for use in the standards program must be accompanied by a Rights Management Form that gives SCTE certain rights.
Claims of Conformance and Association
SCTE does not test products for compliance with its standards, and does not authorize anyone else to do so. Claims by manufacturers of conformance represent the statements of those manufacturers and are in no way endorsed by SCTE. Statements by manufacturers that suggest such an endorsement are not allowed.
Similarly, indications of membership in SCTE standards committees on business cards or similar media does not imply any endorsement by SCTE of the companies or their products and services. Any reference must be to the SCTE Standards Program or to a specific committee, to avoid the implication that the organization is a member of SCTE itself. (Individual SCTE members are allowed to identify themselves as such on business cards consistent with the SCTE logo policy.)
The use of the SCTE logo is governed by the SCTE Logo Usage Rules. The use of the logo in conjunction with product claims is not allowed.
Within these guidelines, SCTE has no objection to claims of product conformance or standards program membership.
Intellectual Property Declaration
The following Patent Statement and Licensing Form declarations and related materials have been received by SCTE:
General Declarations
ANSI/SCTE 20 Method for Carriage of Closed Captions and Non-Real Time Sampled Video
ANSI/SCTE 41 (formerly DVS 301), POD Copy Protection System
ANSI/SCTE 90-1 (formerly CAPS 02-01) SCTE Application Platform Standard OCAP 1.0 Profile
- Cable Television Laboratories, Inc
- LG Electronics
- Open Cable IPR Policy
ANSI/SCTE 131 HMS VoIP Test Management Information Base (MIB) Definition SCTE-HMS-VOIP-MIB
ANSI/SCTE 174 Radio Frequency over Glass Fiber-to-the-Home (RFoG) Specification Extension
Data Over Cable Services Interface Specifications (“DOCSIS”)
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