This is not new news, this is old news, from November 2015 I am just catching up to… 😦

“Effective January 1, 2016 the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) acquired the assets of the UPnP Forum. The agreement will streamline and consolidate efforts around both organizations’ technologies and infrastructure, leading to increased alignment on standardization for the IoT. As part of the asset transfer, UPnP activities will continue to be advanced within OIC including the UPnP certification program.”

http://openinterconnect.org/
http://www.upnp.org/
http://openinterconnect.org/upnptransfer-faq/
http://openinterconnect.org/oic-news-releases/open-interconnect-consortium-increases-membership-with-upnp-forum-agreement/

Now that standards are the new way for companies to compete, it is fun to watch standards bodies getting acquired. 😐