AS/NZS 4107.

1:1993
ISO/IEC 8880–1:1990

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—Protocol combinations
to provide and support the OSI
network service

Part 1: General principles

 AS/NZS 4107.1:1993

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical

Committee IT/1, Information Systems—Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of
the Council of Standards Australia on 25 November 1992 and on behalf of the Council
of Standards New Zealand on 22 September 1992. It was published on 15 March 1993.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

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AOTC
Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies
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
Department of Defence
Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce
Information Exchange Steering Committee
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO
Life Insurance Federation of Australia
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 AS/NZS 4107.1:1993

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—Protocol combinations
to provide and support the OSI
network service
Part 1: General principles

First publi shed as Joint Australi an/New Zealand Standard

AS/NZS 4107.1:1993.

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
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Homebush NSW 2140 Australia

STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

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ISBN 0 7262 7989 7
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee on Information
Systems—Interconnection. It is identical with, and has been reproduced from, ISO/IEC 8880-1:1990, Information
technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Protocol combinations to provide
and support the OSI Network Service, Part 1: General principles.

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.

Under arrangements made between Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand and the international Standards
bodies, ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, users of this Joint Standard are advised
of the following:
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(a) In Australia, copyright is vested in Standards Australia. In New Zealand, copyright is vested in Standards
New Zealand.

(b) The number of this Standard is not reproduced on each page; its identity is shown only on the cover and title
pages.

For the purpose of this Joint Standard, the ISO/IEC text should be modified as follows:

(i) Terminology The words ‘Australian Standard’, ‘New Zealand Standard’ or ‘Joint Australian/New Zealand
Standard’ should replace the words ‘International Standard’ wherever they appear.

(ii) References The references to International Standards should be replaced by references to the following
Australian/New Zealand Standards:

Reference to International Australian/New Zealand Standard

Standard or other Publication
ISO
7498 Information processing systems— AS Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection— 2777 Open Systems Interconnection—
Basic reference model Basic reference model
7498/Add.1 Addendum 1: Connectionless-mode 2777 Supplement 1: Connectionless-mode
transmission transmission
8648 Information processing systems— AS Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection— 3622 Open Systems Interconnection—
Internal organization of the Internal organization of the
Network layer network layer
ISO/IEC
8880 Information technology— AS/NZS Information technology—
Telecommunications and 4107 Telecommunications and
information exchange between information exchange between
systems—Protocol combinations systems—Protocol combinations
to provide and support the to provide and support the
OSI Network Service— OSI network service
8880-2 Part 2: Provision and support of the 4107.2 Part 2: Provision and support of the
connection-mode Network connection-mode network
Service service
8880-3 Part 3: Provision and support of the 4107.3 Part 3: Provision and support of the
connectionless-mode Network connectionless-mode network
Service service
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CONTENTS

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

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

3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

4 Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

5 Principles and framework for describing the support of the OSI Network Service 5

6 Protocol combinations and conformance principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

7 Format and contents of parts 2 and 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

8 Criteria for expansion of ISO/IEC 8880 ........... ... .. .... ........ . 6

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Annex A Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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Information technology—Telecommunications and

information exchange between systems—Protocol
combinations to provide and support the OSI
network service
Part 1:
General principles

1 Scope the standards listed below. Members of IEC and ISO

maintain registers of currently valid International
This part of ISO/IEC 8880 specifies the protocol Standards.
combinations to be used to support the OSI Network
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Service defined in ISO 8348 and its Addendum 1. The
field of application of this part of ISO /IEC 8880 is that
of the environments defined in the other parts of
ISO/IEC 8880. The field of application may be extended
by the incorporation of a new environment as specified
herein. This part of ISO/IEC 8880
a) provides a general introduction;
ISO 7498:1984, Information processing systems —
Open Systems Interconnection — Basic reference
model.
ISO 7498/Add.1:1987, Information processing
systems — Open Systems Interconnection — Basic
reference model — Addendum 1: Connectionless-mode
transmission.

b) refers to those International Standards which ISO 8648:1988, Information processing systems —
define the architectural principles governing the Open Systems Interconnection — Internal organization
provision of the Network Service; of the Network layer.

c) defines terms which may be used in specifying the
environments in which protocol combinations
operate;
d) specifies principles and a framework for describing
the support of the OSI Network Service;
ISO/IEC 8880-2:1990, Information technology —
Telecommunications and information exchange
between systems — Protocol combinations to provide
and support the OSI Network Service — Part 2:
Provision and support of the connection-mode Network
Service.

e) defines the conformance principles to be followed ISO/IEC 8880-3:1990, Information technology —

in the other parts of ISO/IEC 8880 which specify Telecommunications and information exchange
the requirements for equipment claiming between systems — Protocol combinations to provide
conformance to ISO/IEC 8880; and support the OSI Network Service — Part 3:
Provision and support of the connectionless-mode
f) considers the rationale for the inclusion of protocol Network Service.
combinations in the other parts of ISO /IEC 8880
and the subsequent addition of protocol
combinations to those parts; and 3 Definitions
g) specifies the format and content of the other parts 3.1 Reference model definitions
of ISO /IEC 8880 and subsequent additions to
those parts. This part of ISO /IEC 8880 makes use of the following
terms defined in ISO 7498 and ISO 7498/Add.1:
Where an environment does not support the OS I
Network Service of the appropriate mode, it lies outside a) OS I Network Layer;
the field of application of ISO /IEC 8880.
b) OS I Network Service;

c) Service;
2 Normative references
d) Protocol;
The following standards contain provisions which,
through reference in this text, constitute provisions of e) Connection-mode;
this part of ISO /IEC 8880. At the time of publication, f) Connectionless-mode;
the editions indicated were valid. All standards are
subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on g) Intermediate System;
this part of ISO /IEC 8880 are encouraged to investigate
the possibility of applying the most recent editions of h) End-system.

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