EPIC

European Project on Information Infrastructure Co-ordination Group

The European Project (later Programme) on Information Infrastructure Coordination Group (EPIC) took over where EPIISG left off. EPIISG having identified the standardization areas which could be addressed in the context of EII/GII, EPIC's role was to establish active standardization projects, and to monitor and coordinate their progress.

Following discussions both within EPIC and outside, it became clear that its field of interest was much wider than ETSI alone, incorporating as it did areas rightly the domain of other standardization bodies (CEN & CENELEC and their international equivalents, ISO & IEC), as well as other quasi-standardization organizations (ATM Forum, EWOS, ...). It thus ceased to be an ETSI-managed committee, and became an arm of the then recently established Information, Communication and Telecommunications Standards Board (ICTSB).

EPIC was closed in August 1997 when its duties were fully absorbed by ICTSB.