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All partners have an equal standing and the initiative isn't owned by anyone, asserts Amos Michelson, Creo's CEO. The only requirement for membership is a commitment to the goals of the group and a willingness to do the work, he adds.

Questions also were raised about why such an initiative was needed from a technical standpoint, given that JDF is by definition an interface specification and CIP4 is doing its own interoperability testing (and, possibly, certification). The inferences, and sometimes overt charges, made by skeptics were that the initiative was simply a marketing ploy and/or an attempt to gain competitive advantage through exclusion.