CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC-10021-8-96 (R2000)

The international community has decided to make this standard available only in the English language version. It has been adopted as a National Standard of Canada on this basis. This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 10021-8:1995. 1 Scope This part of ISO/IEC 10021 defines the overall system and service of EDi messaging. Other aspects of message handling systems and services are defined in other parts of ISO/IEC 10021. The layout of Standards | Recommendations defining the message handling system and services is shown in table 1 of ISO/IEC 10021-1 | CCITT Recommendation X/F.400. The public services built on MHS, as well as access to and from the MHS for public services are defined in the ITU-T's F.400-Series of Recommendations. The technical aspects of MHS are defined in the multi-part series numbered ISO/IEC 10021 and ITU-T's X.400-Series of Recommendations. The overall system architecture of MHS is defined in ISO/IEC 10021-2 | CCITT Recommendation X.402. The technical aspects of EDI messaging are defined in ISO/IEC 10021-9 | CCITt Recommendation X.435.