The Joint Development Foundation (JDF) has been reaffirmed by ISO/IEC JTC1 as a Recognized Submitter (formerly known as a PAS Submitter). For standards developers working in JDF projects, this status provides an additional path to widespread adoption: the continuing option to take a specification under JDF to formal international standardization.
JDF specifications are widely implemented on their own. For projects that choose this path to international standardization, publication as an ISO/IEC JTC1 standard brings a specification to the national standards bodies that participate in JTC1, and to the governments, industries and organizations that look to those bodies when selecting standards. It extends a specification’s reach into new settings while the project keeps building it in the community where it started, in cooperation with the international community.
JDF projects have already taken several specifications through this path, including:
- OpenChain (ISO/IEC 5230), the international standard for open source license compliance
- OpenChain Security Assurance Specification (ISO/IEC 18974), extending the OpenChain program to security assurance practices
- SPDX (ISO/IEC 5962), an international standard for communicating software bill of materials (SBOM) information
- 3MF (ISO/IEC 25422), a file format standard for additive manufacturing
- Software Carbon Intensity (ISO/IEC 21031), a specification for measuring and reporting the carbon impact of software
“JDF offers a variety of approaches to standards development, all adhering to industry best practices,” said Jory Burson, General Manager of the Joint Development Foundation. “The ISO/IEC JTC1 route is one of those approaches, and this reaffirmation reinforces JDF’s mission to enable its members to produce high-quality, widely adopted specifications that meet the needs of adopters. Every JDF specification that becomes an International Standard shows what our model makes possible: standards developers choose their path, and JDF helps them succeed on it.”
JDF is committed to working with ISO/IEC JTC1 and the international standards community to bring open, collaboratively developed specifications to a global audience.