CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC-10612-4-96 (R2009)

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 ISP 10612-4:1995. 1 Scope 1.1 General ISO/IEC ISP 10612 is applicable to interworking units concerned with operating in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Local Area Network environment. It specifies a combination of OSI standards that collectively provide a MAC relay function. This part of ISO/IEC ISP 10612 is applicable to interworking units operating between CSMA/CD LAN subnetworks. ISO/IEC ISP 10612-1 specifies the relay function and LAN subnetwork-independent requirements, ISO/IEC ISP 10612-2 specifies the CSMA/CD LAn subnetwork-dependent requirements, and this part of ISO/IEC ISP 10612 defines profile RD51.51.