28. 2. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 48/3 
Cosine — Cooperation for open systems interconnection networking in Europe (Eureka 
project 8) 
Notification of invitation to tender 
(90/C 48/03) 
Cosine sub-project P2.1 — Pilot international directory services 
The Eureka Project Cosine is funded by the Cosine 
member countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, 
France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Iceland, 
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, 
Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the 
United Kingdom, Yugoslavia) and the Commission of 
the European Communities, with the aim of establishing 
a pan-European OSI standards conformant computer 
communications infrastructure for academic, industrial 
and public sector research and development workers. 
As part of the implementation phase of Cosine, tenders 
will be sought from organizations to investigate and set 
up a pan-European pilot directory service according to 
CCITT X.500/ISO 9594 for users in the Cosine 
community, in collaboration with national directory pilot 
projects. 
Complete or partial tenders will be sought to achieve the 
project objectives, which are in summary: 
1. to encourage the establishment of a European wide 
X.500 based directory service for the user community; 
2. to interconnect the national X.500 pilot directory 
projects to give their users an international service; 
3. to include the existing North American pilot X.500 
based directory service activities; 
4. to ensure that there are no significant problems of 
interworking at the international level between 
different X.500 implementations; 
5. to provide user input into the standards and func­
tional standards' making process based on practical 
experience; 
6. to remove a major barrier to the spread of the use of 
OSI applications across Europe, in particular elec­
tronic mail and IT AM, by providing directory infor­
mation for applications and users. The tendering organizations are to be based in one of 
the Cosine countries. 
It is expected that the successful organizations will have 
as a minimum the following characteristics: 
— experience in the implementation and the 
management of major international projects, 
— experience in OSI standards, applications and related 
products, 
— experience of multi-vendor systems and envi­
ronments. 
The working language of the Cosine project is English. 
The closing date for the receipt of completed tenders is 
expected to be 30 March 1990. 
To receive a copy of the invitation to tender, organiz­
ations should send the following information to the 
address below for entry into the Cosine register used for 
administrative and management purposes: 
— name of organization, address, telephone, telefax, 
electronic-mail, and name of contact person, 
— areas of primary and secondary technical expertise, 
plus references to other OSI projects undertaken. 
The register is a non-exclusive computer database 
containing similar references to all organizations that 
have expressed an interest in the Cosine project. Colla­
borative ventures will be welcomed for this project where 
the tenderers are able to show the benefits to be gained 
from the collaboration. The Cosine Project Management 
Unit may assist, on request, with the creation of suitable 
collaborations. 
Interim Cosine Project Management Unit (P2.1) 
c/o RARE Secretariat 
Postbus 41882 
NL 1009 DB Amsterdam 
The Netherlands; 
telephone: -I- 31 20 592 5078; telefax: + 31 20 592 5155.