On request of the EU Commission, the project has analysed, developed and proposed business models to strengthen a longer-term support for continuous improvement and maintenance of the MHP Conformance Testing regime beyond the lifetime of this IST project.

This required a careful analysis of commercial and legal requirements of current or future MHP Test Suites, as well as the framework for Test Suites related to Java APIs that has to be considered in upcoming MHP extensions, or the framework Test Suites for Java APIs of other application areas general such as mobile phones and others.

The analysis considers

• any objectives and constraints of a business model,
  (target funds to be raised, community and individual parties to be addressed, quality aspects, anti-trust issues, confidentiality about users of tests, acceptability, limitations and licensing under fair and reasonable conditions)
• the parties involved,
  (receiver implementers, middleware providers, agents, custodians)
• fee models and practical collection processes for fees,
  (one-time payments, per-unit royalties, combinations of these, and related processes)

and is described in more detail in section 4.8 of D13. As a conclusion, models have been developed and proposed to DVB that on the one hand fall well short of the development costs, but on the other hand do not delay the introduction of MHP and allow for continuation of efforts in certain areas to focus on.