Appendix A. Acknowledgments
The TC owes special thanks to Dr. Andy Stanford-Clark and Arlen Nipper as the original inventors of the MQTT protocol and for their continued support with the standardization process.
The TC wishes to thank Brian Raymor (formerly of Microsoft) for his work as co-chairman of the MQTT TC during much of the development of the version 5.0 standard.
The following individuals were members of the OASIS Technical Committee during the creation of this standard and their contributions are gratefully acknowledged:
- Senthil Nathan Balasubramaniam (Infiswift)
- Dr. Andrew Banks, editor (IBM)
- Ken Borgendale, editor (IBM)
- Ed Briggs, editor (Microsoft)
- Raphael Cohn (Individual)
- Richard Coppen, chairman (IBM)
- William Cox (Individual)
- Ian Craggs , secretary (IBM)
- Konstantin Dotchkoff (Microsoft)
- Derek Fu (IBM)
- Rahul Gupta, editor (IBM)
- Stefan Hagen (Individual)
- David Horton (Solace Systems)
- Alex Kritikos (Software AG, Inc.)
- Jonathan Levell (IBM)
- Shawn McAllister (Solace Systems)
- William McLane (TIBCO Software Inc.)
- Peter Niblett (IBM)
- Dominik Obermaier (dc-square GmbH)
- Nicholas O'Leary (IBM)
- Brian Raymor (Microsoft)
- Andrew Schofield (IBM)
- Tobias Sommer (Cumulocity)
- Joe Speed (IBM)
- Dr Andy Stanford-Clark (IBM)
- Allan Stockdill-Mander (IBM)
- Stehan Vaillant (Cumulocity)
For a list of those who contributed to earlier versions of MQTT refer to Appendix A in the MQTT v3.1.1 specification [MQTTV311].