Learn why interoperability matters for your organization's learning and workforce investments. And learn how to become a part of I2IDL’s community.

The I2IDL website went live 35 days ago. The idea of I2IDL itself only came to be formed about two weeks prior to that. It was an idea that came out of a bit of a crisis in the learning technology community which was discussed in our inaugural white paper released on 15 Dec 2025.

Since then, we’ve talked to hundreds of you. We’ve talked to people in government both in the United States and abroad and we are still learning about how the changes at ADL are affecting you both in terms of technological guidance and partnership and in terms of “what next”. We’ve talked to industry who were (and in many cases still are) unclear on what this all means for xAPI, Learning Record Stores, and the Total Learning Architecture. We’ve also gotten a tremendous amount of support from across industry, among commercial vendors—many of whom are competitive with one another—and their stakeholders, and through channels of service providers and learning technology consultants. From talking to the largest open source learning software vendor in the world to talking to a grad student just thinking of starting her own business, we’ve been listening.

As more tools and organizations share their xAPI data around, the question of data quality becomes (even more) urgent. A malformed statement, a non-conformant xAPI Profile implementation, or low-fidelity activity data no longer “just” create local problems; now flawed data can propagate through the network, degrading analytics and undermining trust across the digital landscape.