JDF BASICS -- It's Just the Ticket

The industry's experience with implementing PPF and the extensibility of JDF have cast doubt on the "plug-and-play" interoperability of the specification. Currently, no formal process exists for testing and certifying JDF specification compliance, concedes Margaret Motamed, CIP4 chief marketing officer. However, she says the organization's System Interoperability Working Group is working to create a compliance process that is expected to include certification levels and a series of interoperability test events.