Members of the IP Alliance agree to work towards the following common principles:

1. Members of the IP Alliance agree to promote the interconnectivity of IP-based communications with an initial focus on voice applications. The IP Alliance may, as needed or desired, also consider other IP-based communication services and applications such as presence, instant messaging, multimedia, events and conferencing collaboration.
   
   
2. Members of the IP Alliance agree to work to ensure that IP-based communications entities address and develop financially responsible industry-based solutions to satisfy worthy policy objectives such as emergency response, law enforcement, security and privacy, naming and addressing.
   
   
3. Members of the IP Alliance agree to work to foster and protect the rights of users of IP-based communications, including the right to access content, the right to use applications, the right to attach standards compliant personal devices, the right to obtain service plan information, and the right to privacy and security.
   
   
4. Members of the IP Alliance agree to work to ensure that IP-based communications may grow unregulated, or with as little regulation as possible, and consistent with the goal of fostering open IP-based communications across the Internet.
   
   
5. Members of the IP Alliance agree to work towards interconnecting the increasing number of VoIP and IP-based communications islands into one large IP-based communications global network by using open global Internet standards. Members of the IP Alliance may maintain their own Intranets and other internal IP-based communities.
   
   
6. Members of the IP Alliance agree to work to accomplish interconnections between IP-based communications providers in a responsible way, so as not to expose the networks to unwanted attacks and users to unwanted telemarketing and spam. IP-based communications providers will use the pertinent IETF and ITU-T standards and practices and must assure authenticated and correct IETF and ITU-T standards compliant transmission of the identity of their subscribers who originate a call.
   
   
7. Members of the IP Alliance agree to support the model of financially sustainable Internet broadband service and financially sustainable IP-based communications service while at the same time promoting competition in the open market place to best serve the users of VoIP and IP-based communications in general.
   
   
8. Members of the IP Alliance agree to work to develop intellectual property protection and the promotion of open standards using similar guidelines as those customary for IETF. Proponents of a technology or method shall, to the best of their ability, disclose any intellectual property claims and restrictions attached to such technology or method.
   
   
9. Members of the IP Alliance agree to cooperate with other organizations or entities that are working to ensure the proper unregulated treatment of VoIP.