Carl Tyler's Blog :: A new Unified Communications Interoperability Forum has formed

Category UC ineroperability
This new group Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF)

UCIF is a non-profit alliance of communications technology companies working together to realize the potential of unified communications (UC) by increasing efficiency, decreasing implementation costs and improving the interoperability experience for UC customers. The UCIF’s vision is to enable interoperability of open, standards-based UC hardware and software across enterprises, service providers, and consumer clouds, as a means of generating incremental business opportunity for all stakeholders in the ecosystem and of increasing the business use of UC technologies and services. The UCIF creates and tests interoperability profiles, implementation guidelines and best practices for interoperability between UC products and existing communications and business applications.

If you read between the marketing filler, it sounds promising, but I was surprised to see IBM are missing from the party http://www.ucif.org/AboutUs/OurMembers.aspx. IBM should be all over these things, as an early creator of many of the UC protocols in use, seems crazy they aren't involved.