The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) is an industry organization to develop standards, promote a set of interoperability guidelines, and provide a certification program for devices involved in the Internet of things (IoT).

[3][4][1] The OCF delivers a framework that enables these requirements via a specification,[5][6] a reference implementation[7] and a certification program.

IoTivity, the open source reference implementation of the specifications, is actively developed by different members of the OCF.

The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) began as an industry group to develop standards and certification for devices involved in the Internet of Things (IoT) based around the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP).

[12] On February 19, 2016 the OIC changed its name to the Open Connectivity Foundation and added Microsoft, Qualcomm and Electrolux.