maybe there is a lesson to learn simply by considering wording and taking into account its sound:

there was GOSIP - well that has been a name given by the people from the usa for their program to go along with osi. the typo gossip somehow was/still is common, if one looks through the papers.

there have been applications, that should support osi, which bear strange names: DIN-A-MIT, a distributed mail and information system developed at the hahn-meitner institute:

a system on the basic modules User-Agent, Post-Station, User-Record-Base and Message-Base

and well, there was GILT:

The aim of the GILT-project was 'Interconnection of Computer Based Message Systems and Conference Systems' within the framework of ISO - Open Systems Interconnection and in a 'perfect' fully interconnected environment, where each system is able to connect directly to all other ones.

europe truly faced/faces a chameleon dilemma, as a lot of european tech. efforts are tagged 'perfect' once upon and onward.