Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile

The Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) was a specification that profiled open networking products for procurement by governments in the late 1980s and early 1990s. == Timeline == 1988 - GOSIP: Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile published by CCTA, an agency of UK government 1988 - UK's CCTA commences work with France and West Germany on European Procurement Handbook (EPHOS) 1990 - The US specification requiring Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) protocols was first published as Federal Information Processing Standards document FIPS 146-1.

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