AS/NZS 4165:1994

ISO/IEC TR 10024:1992

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—Formal description of
AS/NZS 2912 (Classes 0, 1, 2, 3)
in LOTOS
[ISO/IEC TR title: Information technology—Telecommunicationsand
information exchange between systems—Formal description of
ISO 8073 (Classes 0, 1, 2, 3) in LOTOS]
 AS/NZS 4165:1994

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 12 October 1993 and on behalf of the Council
of Standards New Zealand on 22 April 1993. It was published on 21 February 1994.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies

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Australian Bankers Association

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce, Australia
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
Life Insurance Federation of Australia
OPTUS Communications, Australia
Telecom Australia

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 AS/NZS 4165:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—Formal description of
AS/NZS 2912 (Classes 0, 1, 2, 3)
in LOTOS

First published as Joint Standard AS/NZS 4165:1994.

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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Australia/New Zealand Standards Committee IT/1, on
Information Systems— Interconnection. It is identical with, and has been reproduced from,
ISO/IEC TR 10024:1992, Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange
between systems— Formal description of ISO 8073 (Classes 0, 1, 2, 3) in LOTOS.
This Joint Standard is one of a series of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Standards which are
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(ii) References The references to International Standards should be replaced by references to the
following Australian/New Zealand Standards:

Reference to International Standard Australian/New Zealand Standard

or other Publication
ISO AS
7498 Information Processing Systems—Open 2777 Information processing systems—Open
System s I nte r connect ion—Basi c System s I nte r connect ion—Basi c
Reference Model reference model
8072 Information Processing Systems—Open 2911 Information processing systems—Open
Systems I nter connection—Transport Systems I nter connection—Transport
service definition service definition
8807 Information Processing Systems—Open —
Systems Interconnection—LOTOS—A
formal description technique based on
the temporal ordering of observational
behaviour
ISO/TR
8509 Information Processing Systems—Open 3620 Information processing systems—Open
Sys tems I nter conn ecti on—S er vi ce Sys tems I nter conn ecti on—S er vi ce
conventions conventions
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ISO/IEC AS/NZS
8073 Information Technology—Telecommuni- 2912 Information technology—Telecommuni-
cations and information exchange cations and information exchange
between systems—Connection oriented betw een systems — Open Systems
transport protocol specification Interconnection— Protocol for providing
the connection-mode transport service
ISO/IEC/TR
10023 I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y — T e l e - 4164 I nf or m a ti o n t ec h n ol og y — Te le -
commun ications and inf or m ation commun ications and inf or m ation
exchange between systems—Formal exchange between systems—Formal
description of ISO 8072 in LOTOS description of AS 2911 in LOTOS
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CONTENTS

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

2 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

4 Symbols and abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

5 Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

6 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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7 Introduction of the formal description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

8 Specification parameters data types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

9 Static conformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

10 Dynamic conformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

11 Service constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

12 Service primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

13 Protocol constraints ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... .. 13

14 Event Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
15 Identification of transport connections ........... ... .. .... ...... 18

16 Provision of a transport connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

17 Usage of a network connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

18 Relationship between TPDU s and NSP s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

19 Abstract TPDU s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

20 Provision and negotiation of options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

21 Relationship between TSPs and TPDU s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

22 Release of a transport connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

23 Numbering of TPD Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

24 Explicit flow control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

25 Assignment to network connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

26 Reassignment after failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

27 Error recovery ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... ...... 68

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28 Retention and retransmission ........... ... .. .... ........ .... 70

29 acknowledgement of TPDU s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

30 Resynchronization ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... ... 78

31 Association of TPDU s with transport connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

32 Multiplexing of a network connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

33 Resequencing in class 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

34 Use of checksum ........... ... .. .... ........ .... .. ... .... 90

35 Retransmission in Class 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

36 Optional retransmission procedures in class 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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37 Concatenation of TPDU s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

38 Use of the network service expedited option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

39 Treatment of protocol errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

40 Encoding of TPDU s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

41 Auxiliary definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Annex A Definitions relating to the Transport Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Annex B Definitions relating to the Network Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Annex C Interpretation of ISO 8073 ........... ... .. .... ........ .. 144

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