IVI drivers - new requirements for IVI conformance

With any new standard, users are concerned with the process vendors use to assure their products conform to the standard. Uniform conformity benefits all users by reducing the effort required to integrate products from different vendors. The IVI Foundation has spent over four years developing a specification and conformance infrastructure to assure IVI drivers are conformant. All future IVI drivers have to adhere to these requirements to be considered conformant. This paper describes the newly released conformance specification and infrastructure. The paper covers the following issues: the history of the conformance process, how drivers are tested to assure compliance, IVI's public list of conformant drivers, how conformance is policed, and IVI's conformance dispute arbitration process.