On 2006-08-01 08:15:17 +0100, Steve Firth said:

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 08:00:31 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

The U.S. government DoD attempted to mandate it in the form of GOSIP
for all environments from 1990 onwards. That never happened

Um, not quite. I've been using GOSIP for the last few years and it's only
now that the network in question is to be converted to TCP/IP.

Do you mean the US or UK one?

Really the point I was making was that from 1995 onwards, the U.S.
federal procurement changed the requirements to remove the requirement
to use GOSIP.

http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip146-2.htm