CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 10607-4-98 (R2006)

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 10607-4:1995. 1 Scope 1.1 General This part of ISO/IEC ISP 10607 (AFT12) covers transfer of files between the filestores of two end systems, using the OSI connection-mode transport service to provide the interconnection. One end system acts in the initiator role and requests access to the file, the other end system acts in the responder role and provides access to the file in the virtual filestore. These role combinations and the interoperability are shown in table 1. Table 1 - Interoperable configurations Initiator Responder Sender Receiver Sender Receiver Initiator Sender x Receiver x Responder Sender x Receiver x Transfer of files is supported for files with an unstructured, flat or random access constraint set and containing binary or character data. This part of ISO/IEC ISP 10607 specifies implementations that support file transfer, i.e. the ability to a) either read a complete file, or b) write (replace and/or extend and/or insert, depending on constraint set and document type) to a file, or c) both; and optionally to a) create and delete a file, and b) read the attributes of a file. This part of ISO/IEC ISP 10607 specifies how the OSI FTAM application standard shall be used to provide the functions defined above. It does not specify total system capability. In particular, a system may operate this profile and at the same time engage in other communications. The requirements placed on an implementation in this part of ISO/IEC ISP 10607 are solely those necessary for operation of the protocol specified. This part of ISO/IEC ISP 10607 describes the actions and attributes of the virtual filestore, and the service provided by the file service provider to file service users, together with the necessary communications between the initiator and the responder. 1.2 Position within the taxonomy This part of ISO/IEC ISP 10607 is identified in ISO/IEC TR 10000-2 as "AFT12-Positional File Transfer Service (flat)". It may be combined with any T-Profiles (see ISO/IEC TR 10000) specifying the OSI connection-mode transport service.