A European Workshop on Open Systems has been created to bring together eight different bodies working in the field of standards, reports ICL: the eight are the CEN European Committee for Standardisation; the Cenelec European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation; the SPAG Standards Promotion & Application Group; the European Computer Manufacturers’ Association; Ositop Open Systems Interconnection Technical Office Portocols body; the Rare associated network for European research; Cosine Co-operation for Open System Interconnection Networking in Europe; and the European MAP Users Group; the new organisation will be the supreme body for study and development of Open Systems profiles and conformance.