Reference record for OID 1.3.5

1) 0005 GOSNET United States Federal Government Open System Interconnection Network
2) No check digits are needed as the whole message has a checking mechanism.
Display Requirements: None except that all fields are left justified
Description of organizations covered by the coding system: 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.
Notes on use of the code: The ICD code forms the initial part of the OSI network addressing and naming tree as depicted in Addendum 2 to ISO 8348.

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, acting for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), administers a 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 NSAP addresses, under a delegation of authority from the ISO 6523 part of ISO's subtree that is registered as the [current arc]."