Standardization of IPP was slowed by clashes between the vendor-led IPP working group and the leadership of the InternetEngineeringTaskForce(IETF), which questioned the protocol's design, scalability and security.
He is an active member of the Cloud Security Association, Jericho Forum, Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF), Internet and EngineeringTaskForce(IETF), IEEE and the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).