XMPP Standards Foundation

XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is a non-profit organization that develops and maintains open standards for the XMPP, a decentralized real-time communication protocol standardized through the IETF. The foundation manages the XMPP Extension Protocol (XEP) process, which defines optional extensions to the protocol. It was founded in 2001 as the Jabber Software Foundation and renamed the XMPP Standards Foundation in 2007.