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{{Short description|Telecommunications protocol detail record}}
In [[telecommunications]], an '''IP Detail Record''' (IPDR) provides information about [[Internet Protocol]] (IP)-based service usage and other activities that can be used by [[operations support system]]s (OSSes) and [[business support system]]s (BSSes). The content of the IPDR is determined by the [[service provider]], network/service element vendor, or any other community of users with authority for specifying the particulars of IP-based services in a given context. The IPDR specifications were originally produced by the Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization, Inc. (aka IPDR.org). In 2007, the IPDR.org organization was acquired by the [[TM Forum]], an industry association of more than 900 global members in over 160 countries from across the converging industries of telecom, cable, media and the Internet. The IPDR specifications include requirements for IPDR collection, encoding and transport protocols to exchange IPDR records, the IPDR service specification design guidance, and several sample IPDR Service Definition documents. The IPDR specs are maintained and continue to evolve at the TM Forum Interface Program. The President/COO of IPDR was Kelly Anderson and the technical team lead of IPDR from 2004 until it was Amit Kleinmann of Amdocs.

== Formation and History ==
During the summer of 1999, while the communications industry was grappling with massive growth in the use of Internet Protocol-based networks for voice and [[data communications]], a group of industry veterans formed the IPDR Organization to begin to establish standards for use in operational and business support systems used by the communications carriers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Working group will develop IP billing standard|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DUJ/is_13_103/ai_n27552513/|accessdate=11 November 2011|quote=Nineteen network service providers and telecommunication companies have formed a working group to develop an open Internet billing standard.}}</ref>  Originally formed as an informal confederation of about 60 industry experts from 20 companies, including [[Narus (company)|Narus]], [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Hewlett-Packard]], [[AT&T]] and others who were active in the industry, the organization quickly matured into a formal structure, tackling a range of technical issues associated with the deployment of systems to support the growth of IP-based communications services.

By 2002, the group was involving industry specific software development companies to perform interoperability testing and encompassed working forums around five distinct tracks of industry challenges, had hired a staff, and appointed Aron Heintz as President to guide the quickly growing body of technical work being conducted within the largely volunteer organization.<ref name="highbeam2002">{{cite news|title=IPDR.org Appoints New President and Elects 2002 Board of Directors|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-85929368.html|accessdate=11 November 2011|quote=IPDR appoints new President and announces Board of Directors.}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

IPDR had also established a formal board of directors structure,<ref name="highbeam2002"/> enlisting a range of industry experts from industry players in the United States and Canada to oversee the development of the standards and protocols being developed by the group, including Martin Demers (replaced in 2003 by Stefan Mihai) of Ace*comm, Kelly Anderson of [[Intrado]], Mark Farmer of [[Amdocs]], Tal Givoly of Xacct Technologies, Matthew Lucas of Telestrategies, Jeff Meyer of [[Hewlett-Packard]], Kevin McCoy of [[Cisco Systems]], Mike Norris of [[Telus Communications|Telus]], Steve O'Neal of [[Sprint Corporation|Sprint PCS]] and Pankaj Patel of [[Convergys]].

== IPDR in the Cable Market ==
[[CableLabs]] has included IPDR as part of the [[DOCSIS]] OSS definitions.  It was first included in an ECN to the DOCSIS 1.1 operations support system interface in 2004.  CableLabs has also included IPDR/SP as part of its OCAP 1.1 in 2007.  IPDR has continued to be extended into DOCSIS, with major extensions in DOCSIS 3.0 and EuroDOCSIS 3.0.

== IPDR in the Broadband Market ==
As a result of a formal liaison established between the TM Forum and the [[Broadband Forum]], IPDR technology was incorporated into the TR-069 family of specifications as the Bulk Data Collection technology and published in May, 2012 as TR-232.

== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200110123455/https://www.tmforum.org/ TM Forum]
*[https://metacpan.org/release/IPDR Open Source IPDR Implementation in Perl 5]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180212093440/http://www.a-bb.net/ Active Broadband Networks developers of the leading DOCSIS IPDR Collector]
*[http://www.cablelabs.com CableLabs]
*[http://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-232.pdf Broadband Forum TR-232 Technical Report]

==References==
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[[Category:Telecommunications standards]]