The Home Gateway Initiative is an open forum launched by Telcos in December 2004 with the aim to release specifications of the home gateway.In addition to Telcos, several manufacturers have joined the alliance. See: http://www.homegateway.org/aboutus/memberslist.html.

HGI was formed to boost the market of home communication services to the millions of broadband customers served by its founding members. The initiative will drive the development of residential gateways supporting the delivery of services.

The goals of the initiative are:

To produce and downstream requirements for a residential gateway enabling end to end delivery of services.

To work with manufacturers in order to leverage volumes, to validate with manufacturer against uses cases and requirements, to ensure interoperability.

The initiative will take as a basis the work undertaken within existing bodies (such as ITU H610, DSL forum, DLNA, OSGi Alliance ...) and will analyse gaps with respects to its requirements.

The goals are realised through the open international collaboration of all interested parties, on reasonable terms applied uniformly and openly. HGI is a not for profit organisation.

HGI will contribute to appropriate standards bodies and especially to an organization as the ITU-T.