The scope of this Recommendation | International Standard is:

• an enterprise specification for the trading function;
• an information specification for the trading function;
• a computational specification for traders (i.e. objects providing the trading function);
• conformance requirements in terms of conformance points.

It is not a goal of this Recommendation | International Standard to state how the trading function should be realized. Therefore this Recommendation | International Standard does not include an engineering specification.

The field of application for this Recommendation | Intenational Standard is any ODP system in which it is required to introduce and discover services incrementally, dynamically and openly.