Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile
The Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile or GOSIP is a set of specifications that profiled the use of OSI in products for use in the United States federal government. The protocol specification was published as FIPS 146-1 in 1990. The requirement for vendors to demonstrate their support for this profile led to the growth of formal interoperability and conformance testing for networking products.
In 1995, FIPS 146-2 was published, which removed the procurement requirement for the GOSIP OSI protocols, by permitting acquired products to implement ISO, ITU-T or IETF standards. Subsequent civilian government agency deployments of upper layer networking protocols are predominately based on the Internet standards.