 Profiles The OSI/Network Management Forum is an international organisa- (ISPs). These profiles can also be proposed by bodies outside of tion, primarily interested in standards for network management. It JTC1, such as the regional workshops on OSI, and are then ratified was formed in June 1988 by Andahl Corporation, British Telecom, and published by the JTC1. Regional workshops include the NIST Northern Telecom, STC plc, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard Co., Telecom OSI Implementors Workshop (OIW) in the USA, the European Canada and Unisys Networks. It currently has about one hundred Workshop for Open Systems (EWOS) in Europe, and the Asia and members from seventeen countries, including the USA, Europe, and Oceania Workshop for OSI Standardisation (AOWS) in Asia and Japan, primarily representing the telecommunication and comput- Oceania. These workshops are backed by user organisations, ven- ing industries. dors, etc. The aim of the OSI/NM Forum is to accelerate the implementa- Other organisations carry out conformance testing to the profiles, tion of OSI management standards and to demonstrate their use. and prominent amongst these are the Standards Promotion and However, the Forum accepts that the route to OSI may sometimes Application Group (SPAG) in Europe and the Corporation for Open require the initial use of some other standards, including proprietary Systems (COS) in the USA. All these organisations co-operate in and de facto. the Feeders Forum, set up in 1987, which unifies their technical The policy of the Forum is to adopt international standards, where work and provides a forum for liaison with ISO and IEC. they exist, and to draw up its own functional standards (profiles) in other cases, replacing them with the international standards when 22.3.5 The IEC they have become available. In June 1990 the Forum published its Release 1 specifications, 22.3.5.1 IEC aims which has subsequently been updated. It lays the groundwork for multivendor network management by defining a common approach, The International Electro