The P4 Language Consortium is open to participation by any individual or organization willing and able to make an active and material contribution to the following objectives: - Build a thriving open source community dedicated to the use and improvement of the P4 language. - Utilize P4 to describe how a forwarding plane should process packets. - Promote standardization and improvement of the P4 language - Enable industry participants to develop new technologies that function in accordance with the specification. - Benefit consumers and the industry by facilitating adoption of the P4 language.