The SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum have joined forces to drive the deployment and interoperability of SIP and IPv6 related technologies and services. Under terms of the partnership, the two organizations plan to collaborate on a number of initiatives to educate and co-promote the deployment and integration of these two next-generation protocols throughout the industry.

In the next few months, the SIP Forum and IPv6 Forum leadership will work together to formulate a joint program calendar for their combined membership which may include co- marketing and industry events, technology interoperability initiatives and technical working group collaboration.

IPv6 is a next generation Internet protocol designed to replace and improve upon IPv4 which serves as the fundamental transportation layer protocol for today's Internet. IPv6 has a number of enhanced features and functionality designed to improve the security of IP traffic and provide more support for real-time communications. IPv6 syncs seamlessly with SIP in the application layer, which serves as next generation signalling protocol for handling VoIP and multimedia communications over IP networks.