The Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) is a
specification that profiles open networking products for procurement by governments.

Such profiles were begun by the Federal Government of the United States

Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and...

, but were widely adopted by other countries.

Timeline

• 1990 - The US specification requiring OSI
  Open Systems Interconnection
  Open Systems Interconnection is an effort to standardize networking that was started in 1977 by the International Organization for Standardization , along with the ITU-T.-History:...
  
   protocols was first published as FIPS
  FIPS
  - Computer :*FIPS , Fully Interactive Partition Splitter, a disk partitioner*Federal Information Processing Standard, United States government standards*FTC Fair Information Practice, FIPs, US Federal Trade Commission guidelines- People :...
  
   146-1. The requirement for US Government vendors to demonstrate their support for this profile led them to join the formal interoperability and conformance testing
  Conformance testing
  Conformance testing or type testing is testing to determine whether a product or system meets some specified standard that has been developed for efficiency or interoperability....
  
   for networking products, which had been done by industry professionals at the annual InterOp show since 1980.

• 1993 - Australia and New Zealand GOSIP Version 3 - 1993 Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile
• 1995 - OSI protocols are no longer mandated in the newly published FIPS
  FIPS
  - Computer :*FIPS , Fully Interactive Partition Splitter, a disk partitioner*Federal Information Processing Standard, United States government standards*FTC Fair Information Practice, FIPs, US Federal Trade Commission guidelines- People :...
  
   146-2, instead any of ISO, ITU-T
  ITU-T
  The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector is one of the three sectors of the International Telecommunication Union ; it coordinates standards for telecommunications....
  
   or IETF standards could be used. In practice, and as expected, the IETF TCP/IP stack predominated, interest in OSI implementations declined, and worldwide the deployment of standards-based networking services since have been predominantly based on the Internet protocol suite
  Internet protocol suite
  The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks. It is commonly known as TCP/IP from its most important protocols: Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol , which were the first networking protocols defined in this...
  
  .

However, the Defense Messaging System continued to be based on the OSI protocols X.400

X.400

X.400 is a suite of ITU-T Recommendations that define standards for Data Communication Networks for Message Handling Systems — more commonly known as "email"....

 and X.500

X.500

X.500 is a series of computer networking standards covering electronic directory services. The X.500 series was developed by ITU-T, formerly known as CCITT, and first approved in 1988. The directory services were developed in order to support the requirements of X.400 electronic mail exchange and...

, due to their integrated security capabilities.

See also

• FIPS 146-2 announcement
• Open Systems Interconnection
  Open Systems Interconnection
  Open Systems Interconnection is an effort to standardize networking that was started in 1977 by the International Organization for Standardization , along with the ITU-T.-History:...
  
   (OSI)
• OSI model
  OSI model
  The Open Systems Interconnection model is a product of the Open Systems Interconnection effort at the International Organization for Standardization. It is a prescription of characterizing and standardizing the functions of a communications system in terms of abstraction layers. Similar...
  
  
• ISODE (ISO Development Environment)