CIP4 Announces Fellowship Award

As CIP4's Technical Officer, Prosi also serves on CIP4's Board of Directors and is the Chair of the Technical Steering Committee or "TSC." The TSC consists of all technical working group chairs and is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the JDF architecture.

"Where the individual working groups have their own area of specialization, Rainer is the person that needs to carry around the entire JDF specification in his head," said CIP4 Executive Director James Harvey. "When one group requests a change or new feature that impacts what another group is doing, or where a group is considering functions that have already been addressed elsewhere in the specification, it is most often Rainer who resolves these issues and provides the explanation that members need. He also often takes the lead, drafting new features such as JDF device capabilities and even today he continues to work on JDF developments that may not make it to the market for several years. I think nobody would argue with me when I say that no one else knows JDF as well as Rainer, and without Rainer we would not have the JDF specification we have today."