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Open participation
Working Groups
Working groups are where the specification is actually written. Each owns a domain of the standard and is open to anyone with relevant expertise.
Mandate
A standard is only as good as the people who know the systems it describes. Working groups put domain experts — from DMS, CRM, service, F&I and beyond — in charge of the part of the spec they know best.
The groups
One group per canonical domain, plus a cross-cutting group that owns the security and privacy profile across all of them.
Inventoryinventory.*
Leads & CRMleads.*
Deals & Deskingdeals.*
Serviceservice.*
Partsparts.*
F&Ifni.*
Marketing & Analyticssignals.*
Consent & Complianceconsent.*
Security & Privacycross-cutting
How they function
- Open membership
- Anyone with relevant expertise can join a group. No council membership required.
- Drafting
- Each group drafts and revises its domain's resources, tools, and naming, then hands proposals to the editors.
- Review
- Groups vet proposals for correctness, interoperability, and compliance before they enter public comment.
- Cadence
- Async by default, with scheduled reviews as proposals mature.
What they bring
- Domain truth
- First-hand knowledge of how these systems actually behave keeps the spec implementable, not theoretical.
- Interoperability
- Cross-vendor representation in each group is what makes a conformant server genuinely interchangeable.
- Compliance awareness
- Real exposure to PII and regulatory weight, surfaced early rather than bolted on.
Help shape the standard.
Founding partners get a seat on the council and a hand on v1 of the spec. Anyone can contribute revisions in the open today.