BS ISO/IEC 8348:1996 - Information technology. Open systems interconnection. Network service definition
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This Recommendation I International Standard defines the OSI Network Service in terms of:
a)the primitive actions and events of the Service;
b)the parameters associated with each primitive action and event, and the form which they take,
c)he interrelationship between, and the valid sequences of, these actions and events.
The principal objectives of this Recommendation International Standard are
1)To specify the characteristics of a conceptual Network Service and thus, supplement the Reference Model
in guiding the development of Network Layer protocols.
2)To encourage convergence of the capabilities offered by providers of subnetworks.
3)To provide a basis for the individual enhancement of existing heterogeneous subnetworks to a common
subnetwork-independent Network Service to enable them to be concatenated for the purpose of providing
global communication. (Such concatenation may involve optional additional functions which are not
defined in this Recommendation International Standard.) A definition of the quality of service is an
important element of this Recommendation I International Standard.
4)To provide a basis for the development and implementation of subnetwork-independent Transport Layer
protocols decoupled from the variability of underlying public and private subnetworks and their specific
interface requirements.
This Recommendation International Standard does not specify individual implementations or products nor does it
constrain the implementation of entities and interfaces within a system.
There no conformance of equipment to this Recommendation International Standard. Instead, conformance is
achieved through implementation of conforming OSI Network protocols which fulfill the Network Service defined in
this Recommendation | International Standard.
Coding (data conversion); Data transfer; Quality; Data processing; Character sets; Syntax; Network layer (OSI)
Data layout; Coded character sets; Data transmission; Addresses (data processing); Open systems interconnection
