Amazon's Ring is violating ONVIF's terms, with an ongoing marketing campaign using ONVIF, despite neither being ONVIF conformant nor being an ONVIF member.
Ring avoided answering our question about ONVIF while ONVIF confirmed that Amazon/Ring are not members nor conformant.
UPDATE 4/28/2022: Ring contacted us after this was published and explained their position is that they do not violate ONVIF's rules since their claim is that they support "ONVIF-compatible cameras" and not that they are ONVIF compatible themselves.
ONVIF shall not be used in a way that could lead the public to believe, or create a direct or indirect inference, that a non-conformant product has met the ONVIF conformance requirements or interoperates with other ONVIF conformant products.
Indeed, Ring is a non-conformant product and it is telling the public that it interoperates with ONVIF conformant products. ONVIF goes further emphasizing that companies cannot substitute words like compatible that Ring uses:
For more than 2 months, Ring has benefited from marketing ONVIF, e.g., as shown in the screenshot below from Ring's ONVIF support page:
This is good for Ring but bad for ONVIF and those that depend on ONVIF working because Ring is violating ONVIF's rules and expectations of how ONVIF products work.
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