AS/NZS 4207:1994

ISO/IEC TR 9571:1989

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection—
LOTOS description of the session
service
 AS/NZS 4207:1994

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 19 May 1994 and on behalf of the Council of
Standards New Zealand on 9 May 1994. It was published on 11 July 1994.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

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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 Vice Chancellors Committee
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Technology and Regional Development, Australia
Government Computing Service, New Zealand
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
OPTUS Communications, Australia
Telecom Australia
Telecom New Zealand

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 AS/NZS 4207:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Open Systems Interconnection—
LOTOS description of the session
service

First publi shed as Joint Standard AS/NZS 4207:1994.

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
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Homebush NSW 2140 Australia

STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

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ISBN 0 7262 9018 1
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee
IT/1 on Information Systems—Interconnection. It is identical with and has been reproduced from
ISO/IEC TR 9571:1989, Information technology—Open Systems Interconnection—LOTOS
description of the session service.

This Standard is issued as a Joint Standard under the terms of the Active Cooperation Agreement
between Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand.

The objective of this Standard is to provide OSI network designers with the formal definitions of
the OSI basic connection oriented session service described by the formal description technique
LOTOS.
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This 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.

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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 Standard, the source text should be modified as follows:

(a) Terminology The words ‘this Australian/New Zealand Standard’ should replace the words
‘this International Standard’ wherever they appear.

(b) Decimal marker Substitute a full point for a comma where it appears as a decimal marker.

(c) References The references to international Standards should be replaced by references, where
appropriate, to the following Australian or Joint Australian/New Zealand Standards:

Reference to International Standard Australian or Joint

or other publication
ISO
7498 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Basic Reference Model
8326 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Basic connection oriented session
service definition
8327 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Basic connection oriented session
protocol specification
8807 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
LOT OS — A formal descri pt i on
technique based on the temporal
ordering of observational behaviour
Australian/New Zealand Standard
AS
2777 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Basic reference Model
3591 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Basic connection oriented session
service definition
3592 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Basic connection oriented session
protocol specification
—
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ISO
8823 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Connection oriented presentation
protocol specification
ISO/IEC/TR
9572 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
LOTOS description of the session
protocol
10023 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
LOTOS description of the transport
service
ISO/TR
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AS
3616 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection—
Connection oriented presentation
protocol specification
AS/NZS In for mat i o n t e chn ol ogy — Op en
4206 Systems Interconnection—LOTOS
description of the session protocol
4164 In for mat i o n t ec hn ol o gy— T e l e-
communications and information
exchange between systems—Formal
description of AS 2911 in LOTOS

8509 Information processing systems— 3620 Information processing systems—

Open Systems Interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Service conventions Service conventions

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CONTENTS

Page

1 Scope 1

2 Normative references 1

3 Definitions 2

4 Symbols and abbreviations 2

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5 Conventions 2

6 Introduction to the formal description 3

7 Global constraints of the session service 4

8 Provision of a single session connection 5

9 Local constraints at a session connection endpoint 6

9.1 Interface data types 6

9.2 Processes for local constraints 24

10 End-to-end constraints for a session connection 35

10.1 Association data types 36

10.2 Processes for end-to-end constraints 41

11 Identification of session connections 44

12 Acceptance of session connections 46

13 Backpressure flowcontrol 46
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Information technology—Open Systems

Interconnection—LOTOS description of the
session service

1 Scope

This Technical Report contains a formal description of the OSI Basic Connection Oriented Session Service
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defined in ISO 8326. The formal definitions presented in this Technical Report are expressed in the formal
description technique LOTOS, which is defined in ISO 8807.

These formal definitions are applicable for use in formal descriptions in LOTOS of the OSI Connection
Oriented Session Protocol defined in ISO 8327, namely ISO/IEC TR 9572, and of the OSI Connection
Oriented Presentation Protocol defined in ISO 8823.

The formal description is not limited to a single session connection, but also describes the service instances
that result from multiple session connections either in parallel or in sequence. It therefore also formalizes
aspects of multiplicity which are not presented in ISO 8326 directly, but by way of reference to the OSI
Basic Reference Model, ISO 7498.

2 Normative references

The following standards contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this
Technical Report. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to
revision, and parties to agreement based on this Technical Report are encouraged to investigate the possibility
of applying the most recent editions of the standards listed below. Members of ISO and IEC maintain
registers of currently valid International Standards.

ISO 7498: 1984, Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - Basic Reference Model.

ISO 8326: 1987, Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - Basic connection oriented
session service definition.

ISO 8327: 1987, Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - Basic connection oriented
session protocol specification.

ISO/TR 8509: 1987, Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - Service conventions.

ISO 8807: 1988, Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - LOTOS - A formal
description technique based on the temporal ordering of observational behaviour.

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