1. Scope

1.1

General ISO/IEC ISP 10608 is applicable to end systems concerned with operating in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) environment. It specifies a combination of OSI base standards that collectively provide the connection-mode Transport Service using the connectionless-mode Network Service.

This part of ISO/IEC ISP 10608 is applicable to the provision of the connection-mode Transport Service in end systems attached to an FDDI LAN subnetwork from which the standardized connectionless-mode Network Service can be made available.

1.2

Position within the Taxonomy The taxonomy of OSI profiles is defined in ISO/IEC TR 10000-2. This part of ISO/IEC ISP 10608 defines the profile:

TA54: Connection-mode transport service over connectionless-mode network service over an FDDI LAN subnetwork.

1.3

Scenario Figure 1 illustrates the end system configurations to which this part of ISO/IEC ISP 10608 is applicable.

This part of ISO/IEC ISP 10608 specifies the required functions from the supporting protocol stack shown in figure 2.