[2] In 2009, 11 founding members (BreakingPoint, BT, Cisco, Fanfare, Empirix, Ericsson, EXFO, Ixia, JDSU, Spirent and Verizon) met in Chicago and expressed an interest in forming an industry alliance to bring together commercial testing vendors, test equipment vendors, and other industry experts to create interoperable testing solutions for service providers, network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), and other enterprise organizations with large network deployments.
The result was the Network Test Automation Forum entity, which was set up in 2010 following the first face-to-face meeting in Montreal.
[9][10] This specification describes an XMPP extension that allows an application or tool to register itself in a way that other interested entities can discover its existence.
The NTAF Technical Committee is currently working on draft specifications for resource and inventory management: This working document describes an NTAF extension that allows tools to communicate resource data.
This working document describes an NTAF extension that supports the automatic population of inventory records with key equipment/resource parameters within a test lab environment.