According to US press reports the National Institute of Standards & Technology – NIST – which oversees conformance testing for the US Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile, GOSIP, that went into effect last month, says that initial tests may be incomplete or even flawed, meaning that users have no guarantees that products are fully GOSIP-compliant: NIST recommends that users get compatibility assuraces from vendors that are setting up their own conformance-testing centres; however it says problems should be resolved next year, and that a comprehensive set of tects will be in place before arrival of GOSIP version 2.
