In face of the insistence on sticking with their proprietary of ferings by IBM and DEC (CI No 1,178) the OSI/Network Management Forum, the Corporation for Open Systems, and the Standards Prom otion and Application Group, SPAG, last week agreed to put the pressure on the anti-standards camp by initiating a cohesive three-organisation effort to accelerate availability and use of Open Systems standards for network management. As part of the agreement, the Forum, Corporation and SPAG have formed an Executive Council that includes the heads of the three organisations as well as two representatives from each. The Council will develop a common direction on network management issues and decide specific actions, to be conducted by Technical Interface groups made up of representatives of all three organisations, and the results of the work of these groups will be shared among members of all three bodies. The OSI/Network Management Forum is headquartered in Bernardsville, New York; the Corporation in McLean, Virginia; SPAG, Brussels, Belgium.
