(1) See
gossip protocol.
(2) (
Government
Open
Systems
Interconnection
Profile) A U.S. government mandate that after August 15, 1990, all new network procurements must comply with OSI. Testing is performed at the NIST, which maintains a database of OSI-compliant commercial products. GOSIP also allows TCP/IP protocols to be used.
Broad adoption of OSI standards never came to fruition, and GOSIP evolved into POSIT (Profiles for Open Systems Internetworking Technologies), which is a set of non-mandatory standards that acknowledge the widespread use of TCP/IP. See
POSIT and
OSI.