Joining the forum allows organizations to actively influence the development of the standard. Various classes of membership are available to accommodate individual levels of participation. Interested companies can choose a full, contributing or user member status. Tools and documentation will be made available to ONVIF members to facilitate the development of compliant products. Members will also have the right to use the ONVIF logo. The membership agreement explaining the membership rights and privileges can be downloaded from the ONVIF web site at onvif.org.

ONVIF is represented with its own booth (GA-134) at Security 2008 in Essen, Germany, October 7-10. Spokespersons of the association are available in the booth to present a demonstration of interoperability based on the framework of the standard. The ONVIF
standard defines plug & watch systems and will be including device management, real time viewing, Pan/Tilt/Zoom control, metadata streaming and configuration and event handling. It uses state of the art technologies as defined by the IT industry. A technical outline of the standard is available at the booth.

The forum is planning the first meeting for members and interested parties in the beginning of December 2008. The event includes sessions about the forum's activities, membership possibilities and technical direction. The date and location will be posted on ONVIF's web site at onvif.org once it becomes available.