XMPP Standards Foundation

[4] The Board of Directors[5] of the XMPP Standards Foundation oversees the business affairs of the organization.

As elected by the XSF membership, the Board of Directors for 2020-2021 consists of the following individuals: The XMPP Council[6] is the technical steering group that approves XMPP Extension Protocols, as governed by the XSF Bylaws and XEP-0001.

The Council is elected by the members of the XMPP Standards Foundation each year in September.

Some have chosen to pronounce "XEP" as if it were spelled "JEP", rather than "ZEP", in order to keep with a sense of tradition.

Some XEPs of note include: The XSF biannually holds a XMPP Summit where software and protocol developers from all around the world meet and share ideas and discuss topics around the XMPP protocol and the XEPs.