[ih] GOSIP & compliance

[Dan Lynch]

At Interop we were a teaching organization about interoperability so while we were TCP/IP bigots if the world was going to OSI we would definitely teach that too. Only a few students signed up for the OSI courses. We only offered them for a few years. I think by 91 it disappeared. The buyer is king. 

Dan

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> On Mar 18, 2022, at 11:34 AM, Andrew G. Malis via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> It's been a while, but as I recall, as a part of this requirement,
> TCP/IP-to-OSI transition plans were necessary. While I was at BBN, I wrote
> such a transition plan for the MILNET (or it might have been for the DoD as
> a whole, as I said, things are hazy). I'm sure that it just went on a shelf
> somewhere once the requirement for a plan was met.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 1:02 PM Bob Purvy via Internet-history <
>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I was around for all this, but probably not as much as some of you. So many
>> memories fade...
>> 
>> I've been reading this
>> <
>> https://courses.cs.duke.edu//common/compsci092/papers/govern/consensus.pdf
>>> .
>> This passage...
>> 
>> 
>> *By August 1990, federal agencies were required to procure
>> GOSIP-compliantproducts. Through this procurement requirement, the
>> government intended to stimulate the market for OSI products. However, many
>> network administrators resisted the GOSIP procurement policy and continued
>> to operate TCP/IP networks, noting that the federal mandate, by specifying
>> only procurement, did not prohibit the use of products built around the
>> more familiar and more readily available TCP/IP.*
>> 
>> ... in particular stuck out for me. Admins were required to go OSI, but
>> somehow it never happened.  Does anyone have any personal stories to relate
>> about this, either your own or someone else's?
>> 
>> *Disclosure*: I'm writing historical fiction, mostly because that's what I
>> want to do. So there won't be any actual names in whatever I write. I'm
>> interested in the private choices people make, not the institutions,
>> towering figures, and impersonal forces that most historians write about.
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