Terms of Use

Note: Your use of this and other Broadband Forum sites constitutes acceptance of these Terms of Use and your agreement to be bound by them. Also see the Broadband Forum Privacy Policy.

Posting of content, comments and uploaded files

• Content posted on the Broadband Forum wiki, including comments and any attached files, is regarded as a contribution and must comply with with Broadband Forum bylaws and policies on anti-trust regulations, possible patent infringements, IPR, restrictions on commercial discussions, etc. (see "What is a contribution?" below)

• Comments and content that might not comply with these terms must not be inserted. Any infringing content will be subject to immediate removal

• Auditing Members have read-only access to pages, contributions and code posted on Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket

• In general, these Terms of Use apply to Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket and other Broadband Forum sites. Please consult the related pages on the public web site for further information

What is a contribution?

Any Submission to the Broadband Forum intended by the Submitter for publication as all or part of a Broadband Forum Draft Specification or Specification, and any statement made within the context of a Broadband Forum activity is considered a "Broadband Forum Contribution". Such statements include oral statements in Broadband Forum sessions, as well as written and electronic communications made at any time or place, which are addressed to:

• Broadband Forum plenary sessions
• Any Broadband Forum Work Area or portion thereof
• Any Birds of a Feather (BOF) session
• Any Broadband Forum mailing list, any Work Area or Project Stream mailing list, or any other mailing list functioning under Broadband Forum auspices
• Any Broadband Forum Slack discussion

Access to Broadband Forum mailing lists and Slack is granted to all Broadband Forum Members participating in the BBF technical process. However, please note that Auditing Members can only view messages; they are not permitted to comment or ask questions, as described in the Broadband Forum Bylaws.

All Broadband Forum Contributions are subject to the rules of the Broadband Forum Bylaws, IPR policy and Policies & Procedures.

A participant in any Broadband Forum activity is deemed to accept all Broadband Forum rules of process, as documented in the Broadband Forum Bylaws.

A participant in any Broadband Forum activity acknowledges that written, audio and video records of meetings may be made and may be available to Broadband Forum Members and/or the public.

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We will also use it to identify you as an employee of a member company, if we can, making sign-up a fully automated process in the normal case. You must be able to receive email on this address in order to complete sign-up and use the system; only use a non-work email address if there's a known issue and leave us a comment to help us to identify your membership status and give you access as quickly as possible.

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Terms Of Use

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