CAN/CSA-Z243.181-89 (R2013)

This National Standard of Canada is identical in content and in layout with International Standard ISO 8571-2:1988, Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - File Transfer, Access and Management - Part 2: Virtual Filestore Definition. Scope and Field of Application This part of ISO 8571 (a) defines an abstract model of the virtual filestore for describing files and filestores (see section one); (b) defines the set of actions available to manipulate the elements of the model (see section two); (c) defines the properties of individual files and associations in terms of attributes (see section three); (d) defines the form of representations of files with hierarchical structures (see clause 7 in section one). This part of ISO 8571 does not specify (e) requirements relating to the mapping from real to virtual filestores; (f) requirements for implementations of the real filestore. The Virtual Filestore definition is provided for reference by the other parts of ISO 8571 defining the file service (ISO 8571-3) and s pecifying the file protocol (ISO 8571-4).