The Board provides strategic oversight, approves the annual roadmap, ratifies Working Group charters, and holds final vote on any changes to ODA bylaws or governance structure. Board seats are held by member organizations elected by the full membership.
Committees provide cross-cutting governance between the Board and the Working Groups. The Technical Steering Committee owns the macro-roadmap, specification releases, cross-working-group alignment, and technical arbitration. The Marketing & Communications Committee governs ecosystem messaging, certification brand guidelines, and the Alliance’s market engagement.
Working Groups drive ODA’s technical and policy output. Each group operates under a Board-approved charter defining its scope, deliverables, and voting rules. Working Group membership is open to all ODA members. Chairs are elected by ODA members annually.
Task Groups are formed within Working Groups to tackle specific deliverables — a use case framework, an implementation standard, a test specification, or a regulatory brief. They are time-bound, output-focused, and dissolved once their deliverable is ratified by the parent Working Group.