Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile


The Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile was a specification that profiled open networking products for procurement by governments in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Timeline

In practice, from 1995 interest in OSI implementations declined, and worldwide the deployment of standards-based networking services since have been predominantly based on the Internet protocol suite. However, the Defense Messaging System continued to be based on the OSI protocols X.400 and X.500, due to their integrated security capabilities.