Our Story
The Joint Development Foundation began because a corporate attorney had a recurring problem. David Rudin, Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft, was tasked with helping his business partners set up multi-party agreements for source code and specifications projects. These efforts were taking years to negotiate and delaying work on deliverables because there weren’t a set of common terms and clauses everyone could rely on. Thus JDF launched in 2015 as a playbook of solutions to speed the creation of small to medium consortium.
In 2018 JDF became an ISO/IEC JTC1 PAS Submitting Organization, which enables it to submit its specifications for international review and balloting. JDF is an active participant in the JTC1 community, maintains ANSI Membership, and collaborates with many other standards bodies and open source organizations.
Mission Statement
Our Mission is to provide organizational infrastructure and support that fosters the development of standards, technical specifications, source code, certification, white papers, best practices and related activities.