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Implementation agreements are produced by members of organizations
participating in the NIST (National Institute of Standards and
Technology) Workshops for Implementors of OSI.  "Stable" implementation
agreements are considered final and advanced enough for use in product
and test suite development.  Before they are declared stable, they are
published as working agreements, so that everyone who is interested can review them.

GOSIP is the Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile.  The U.S.
GOSIP is prepared by the GOSIP Advanced Requirements Group.  A new
profile is expected to be published about every 16 months.

FIPS PUB 146 is the first profile published and is referred to as
version 1.  A FIPS is a Federal Information Processing Standard
published by NIST (formerly called NBS, National Bureau of Standards.) 
FIPS PUB 146 references the Stable Implementation Agreements, version
1, edition 1, December 1987.  Beginning August 1990, federal government
procurements must abide by the provisions of FIPS PUB 146 if applicable.

Version 2 of GOSIP is expected to be published as a FIPS in the spring.
 The draft of version 2 references the Stable Implementation
Agreements, version 2, edition 1, December 1988.  The NIST Workshop in
December recommended to NIST that the Stable Agreements, version 3,
December 1989 be referenced in GOSIP version 2.

Version 1 of GOSIP includes ACSE, FTAM, and MHS.  Version 2 is expected
to include these plus VT and ODA.