The BitTorrent Community Forum coordinates the development of the BitTorrent protocol suite and its reference implementation. It is the wish of Bram Cohen that the BitTorrent remain open source and that the protocol development process be formalized and open to the BitTorrent developer community. At this point, the organizational structure and the procedures for proposing and specifying extensions to BitTorrent have not been defined, and we invite established client developers to join us in designing this organization.
The original version of the protocol specifications written by Bram Cohen are currently being expanded to improve specificity. They will soon be made available for community review.
The revised specifications to the protocol suite will cover: