The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) and the AllSeen Alliance, which provides the AllJoyn open source IoT framework, announced that the two groups are merging and that the larger consortium will keep the Open Connectivity Foundation name. This merger will advance interoperability between connected devices from both groups, enabling the full operating potential of IoT and representing a significant step towards a connected ecosystem.
The newly merged groups will collaborate on future OCF specifications, as well as the IoTivity and AllJoyn open source projects. Both projects will collaborate to support future versions of the OCF specification in a single IoTivity implementation that combines the best of both technologies into a unified solution.