---
oid: "1.3.5"
description: "United States federal Government Open System interconnection NETwork (GOSNET)"
last-modified: "2019-03-20"
parent-oid: "1.3"
---

## OID: `1.3.5`

```asn1
{iso(1) identified-organization(3) nist(5)}
```

### Description

United States federal Government Open System interconnection NETwork (GOSNET)

**Classification:** Identification scheme

### Supplementary information

The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) will assign a sub value to any company or organizations that participates in the Government Open System Interconnection Network. This program encompasses governmental offices throughout the world. 
 
From Chapter 5 "Names and addresses" of the book "Open Systems Networking. TCP/IP and OSI" (1993) by D.M. Piscitello and A.L. Chapin: 
"The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), acting for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), administers a Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) registration authority \[...\]. 
GSA will provide, to anyone who asks, a numeric value that can be used in the administrative authority identifier field of U.S. GOSIP version 2 of Network Service Access Point (NSAP) addresses, under a delegation of authority from the ISO 6523 part of ISO's subtree that is registered as the \[current OID\]."

**Creation date:** 1988-02

### Registrant

Name: National Bureau of Standards
Address: Bldg 225 Room B151   
Gaithersburg MD, 20899   
United States of America (the)
Phone: +1 301 975 2833

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