Procedures and Forms

The SCTE standards program is operated according to procedures approved by the SCTE Board of Directors.

Download the SCTE•ISBE Standards Program operating procedures

Anyone inside or outside the SCTE standards program who wishes to submit an idea for a new project can have it considered by submitting their idea on a Project Authorization Request (PAR) form to the standards staff. Every submission will be considered by the Engineering Committee and, if accepted, assigned to an appropriate Subcommittee for development. 
Download the PAR form

PAR forms are processed according to the Engineering Committee PAR Processing Procedure available here.

Any document submitted to an SCTE Subcommittee must be accompanied by a Rights Management form which allows the Subcommittee to conduct its business.

Download the Rights Management Form 

Anyone who believes that they have, or that others have, essential patent rights that are impacted by an SCTE standard should notify the SCTE standards staff as soon as possible. A Patent Declaration form is provided for your convenience. 

Download the Patent Declaration form 

Download other forms used in the SCTE Standards program.

Standards IPR page
Appeal form
SCTE•ISBE Standards and Operational Practices Template  

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Policies

Disclaimer

SCTE assumes no responsibility for errors or omission in any documents on this site, and in no event shall SCTE be liable for any special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the use of this information.

SCTE will on occasion provide links to web sites outside SCTE. SCTE Assumes no responsibility for these sites or for anything that results from visiting them. 

Privacy

The SCTE standards program does not collect identifying information about people visiting this web site. Only summary information about the number of visitors to particular sections of is collected. If you send personally-identifiable information to us, it will not be disclosed to third parties without your consent.

NOTE - This policy applies only to the Standards portion of the SCTE web site. Other sections such as the Bookstore may have different policies. 

Antitrust Guidelines

SCTE standards meetings must be conducted in a manner that avoids the appearance of conduct which might violate antitrust laws.

Legal counsel should be consulted prior to any discussions which staff or participants believe could raise antitrust issues.

There should never be discussions of the following topics:

Copyright

Documents which are made available on this web site, unless otherwise noted, may be reproduced, translated, distributed, and made available electronically on condition that this is not done for profit, that no changes are made to the documents, and that SCTE's rights in the documents are acknowledged. Any requests to reproduce SCTE documents in a manner other than expressly granted, in whole or part, should be submitted to SCTE Standards staff at standards@scte.org.

Documents which are submitted to SCTE for use in the standards program must be accompanied by a Rights Management Form that gives SCTE certain rights.

Claims of Conformance and Association

SCTE does not test products for compliance with its standards, and does not authorize anyone else to do so. Claims by manufacturers of conformance represent the statements of those manufacturers and are in no way endorsed by SCTE. Statements by manufacturers that suggest such an endorsement are not allowed.

Similarly, indications of membership in SCTE standards committees on business cards or similar media does not imply any endorsement by SCTE of the companies or their products and services. Any reference must be to the SCTE Standards Program or to a specific committee, to avoid the implication that the organization is a member of SCTE itself. (Individual SCTE members are allowed to identify themselves as such on business cards consistent with the SCTE logo policy.)

The use of the SCTE logo is governed by the SCTE Logo Usage Rules. The details of these rules are available here. The use of the logo in conjunction with product claims is not allowed.

Within these guidelines, SCTE has no objection to claims of product conformance or standards program membership.

Contact the Staff at  standards@scte.org

Intellectual Property Declaration

The following Patent Statement and Licensing Form declarations and related materials have been received by SCTE:

     Patent Statement and Licensing Form

General Declarations
     Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Inc.
     Technicolor
     Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. for its Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
     ARRIS Enterprises LLC
     Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
     Lucent
     Motorola

ANSI/SCTE 20 Method for Carriage of Closed Captions and Non-Real Time Sampled Video
     Motorola

ANSI/SCTE 41 (formerly DVS 301), POD Copy Protection System
     Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

SCTE 90-1 (formerly CAPS 02-01) SCTE Applications Platform Part 1: OCAP 1.0 Profile (withdrawn)
     CableLabs Television Laboratories, Inc
     Open Cable IPR Policy
     Sun Java License Agreement with CableLabs
     Java License Agreement
     Time Warner Cable     
     LG Electronics         

Data Over Cable Services Interface Specifications (“DOCSIS”) 
      License Agreement with Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

ANSI/SCTE 131 HMS VoIP Test Management Information Base (MIB) Definition SCTE-HMS-VOIP-MIB
     Tollgrade Communications

ANSI/SCTE 174 Radio Frequency over Glass Fiber-to-the-Home Specification
     Cisco