AS 4021—1992

ISO/IEC 9545:1989

Australian Standard
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Information technology—Open
Systems Interconnection—
Application layer structure
 This Australian Standard was prepared by Committee IT/1, Information Systems—
Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on
2 March 1992 and published on 16 April 1992.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

AUSSAT
Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies
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Australian Bankers Association

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Committee of Directors and Principals
Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Users Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Telecommunications Users Group
Australian Vice Chancellors Committee
Confederation of Australian Industry
CSIRO—Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
Department of Defence
Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce
Information Exchange Steering Committee
Life Insurance Federation of Australia
OTC
Standards Association of New Zealand
Telecom Australia

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 AS 4021—1992

Australian Standard
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Information technology—Open
Systems Interconnection—
Application layer structure

First publi shed as AS 4021—1992.

PUBLISHED BY STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

(STANDARDS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA)
1 THE CRESCENT, HOMEBUSH, NSW 2140
ISBN 0 7262 7435 6
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Standards Australia Committee on Information Systems—
Interconnection. It is identical with and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC 9545:1989, Information
technology—Open Systems Interconnection—ApplicationLayer structure.
The Standard is one of a series of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Standards which are
currently under development. Since OSI Standards are developmental, there may be some minor
difficulties encountered in their implementation. For this reason, Standards Australia will be
providing, through the OSI Help Desk, a service to coordinate and disseminate information
concerning difficulties which are identified in using this Standard.
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ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, users of this Australian Standard
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cover and title pages.

For the purpose of this Australian Standard, the ISO/IEC text should be modified as follows:
(i) Terminology The words ‘Australian Standard’ should replace the words ‘International
Standard’ wherever they appear.
(ii) References The references to International Standards should be replaced by references to
Australian Standards as follows:
Reference to International Australian Standard
Standard or other Publication
ISO AS
7498 Information processing systems— 2777 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—Basic Open Systems Interconnection—Basic
Reference Model reference model
7498-3 Part 3: Naming and Addressing 2777.3 Part 3: Naming and addressing
8649 Information processing systems— 3683 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Service Definition for the Association Service definition for the Association
Control Service Element Control Service Element
8822 Information processing systems— 3615 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Con nect ion-orie nted presenta tion Connection-ori ented pre sentatio n
service definition service definition
TR —
9007 Information processing systems—
Concepts and terminologies for the
conceptual scheme and the infor-
mation base

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CONTENTS

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1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

4 Abbreviations ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... ........ 6

5 Application Layer Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. ... . .. . 6

5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. ... ... . 6
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5.2 Fundamental concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .... . ... . 6

5.3 Application-Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .... . ... . 7
5.4 Application-Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. ... . .. . 7
5.5 Application-Service-Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .... ... . 8
5.6 Application-Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . ... .. ... . 8
5.7 Application-Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. ... . .. . 8
5.8 Single Association Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... ... . 10
5.9 Single Association Control Function . . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. ... . .. . 10
5.10 Multiple Association Co-ordination . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .... ... . 10
5.11 Names and Directory Functions . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . ... .. ... . 11

6 Operation of Application-Entity-Invocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . 12

6.1 Use of Application Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 12
6.2 Use of the Presentation Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 12
6.3 Co-ordination of AS E Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 12
6.4 Co-ordination of the Activities of an AE Invocation . . . . . .. . . . . . . 13
6.5 Error Recovery within an Application-Association . . . . . . ... . . . . . 13

7 Description of Application-Service-Element Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

8 Abstract Syntax Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

9 Registration Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Annex A: Examples of the Structure of AE-Invocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

 AUSTRALIAN STANDARD
Information technology—Open Systems
Interconnection—Application layer structure
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1 Scope
This International Standard refines the Basic Reference
Model for OSI to provide a framework for co-ordinating
the development of existing and future Application
Layer standards. It is provided for reference by
Application Layer standards.
In particular this International Standard:
a) defines the nature of standards in the
Application Layer and the relationships among
them;
b) defines the architectural framework in which
individual OS I Application Layer protocols shall be
developed.
c) defines the categories of identifiable objects
which are necessary for the specification and
operation of protocols;
d) relates distributed information processing
activities to the standards in the Application Layer.
This International Standard does not specify services
and protocols for OSI. It is neither an implementation
specification for systems, nor a basis for appraising the
conformance of implementations. Further, it addresses
neither the requirements for, nor the form of,
documentation of such services and protocols.
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2 Normative references
The following standards contain provisions which,
through reference in this text, constitute provisions of
this International Standard. At the time of publication,
the editions indicated were valid. All standards are
subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on
this International Standard are encouraged to
investigate the possibility of applying the most recent
editions of the standards listed below. Members of IEC
and ISO maintain registers of currently valid
International Standards.
ISO 7498: 1984, Information processing systems -
Open Systems Interconnection - Basic Reference
Model.
ISO 7498-3: 1989, Information processing systems -
Open Systems Interconnection - Part 3: Naming and
Addressing.
ISO 8649: 1988, Information processing systems -
Open Systems Interconnection - Service Definition for
the Association Control Service Element.
ISO 8822: 1988, Information processing systems -
Open Systems Interconnection - Connection - oriented
presentation service definition.
ISO/TR 9007: 1987, Information processing systems -
Concepts and terminologies for the conceptual schema
and the information base.
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