This part of ISO/IEC 7498 establishes a framework for coordinating the development of existing and future standards for OSI Management, and is provided for reference by those standards.

It

• defines terminology of and describes concepts for OSI Management;
• provides a structure for OSI Management together with an overview of the objectives of and facilities provided by OSI Management; and
• describes OSI Management activities.

This part of ISO/IEC 7498 does not specify services or protocols for OSI Management. It is neither an implementation specification for systems, nor a basis for appraising the conformance of implementations.