Community

AFI aims to be a vendor-neutral standard. This section defines how that works in practice.

Foundations

• Charter — what the project is, its scope, and its path to a stable v1.0
• Design principles — the constitutional principles that guide spec decisions
• Governance — roles, decision model, path to a neutral home

Participate

• Contributor ladder — how contributors grow into maintainers
• AEP guidelines — how to propose spec changes via AFI Enhancement Proposals
• Feature lifecycle — how features move through Active, Deprecated, and Removed states
• Communication — where technical discussion happens
• Working groups — focused subteams

Policies

• Antitrust policy — vendor-neutrality means avoiding even the appearance of collusion
• Security policy — how to report vulnerabilities in the spec or reference implementations