BS ISO/IEC BRITISH STANDARD 8326:1996 Ineorporating Amendment No. 1 Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection : Session service definition (ITU-T Rec. X.215 (1995)I IS0/IEC 8326:1996) ICS 35.100.50 NOCOPYINGWITHOUTBSIPERMISSIONEXCEPTASPERMITTEDBYCOPYRIGHTLAW BSIS0/IEC8326:1996 National foreword This British Standard reproduces verbatim IS0/IEC 8326:1996, including Amendment 1 and Amendment 2, and implements it as the UK national standard. It supersedes BS 6960:1988 which is withdrawn. TheUKparticipation in itspreparation was entrustedto Technical Committee IST/21, Open Systems Interconnection, Data Management and Open Distributed Processing, which has the responsibility to: - aid enquirers to understand the text; present to the responsible international/European committee any enquiries on the interpretation, or proposals for change, and keep the UK interests informed; - monitor related international and European developments and promulgate them in the UK. Alistoforganizationsrepresentedonthiscommitteecanbeobtainedon request. Cross-references The British Standards which implement international or European publicationsreferredtointhis documentmaybefoundintheBsI Standards Catalogueunderthesectionentitled"InternationalStandardsCorrespondence Index", orusing the"Find" facility of the BSI Standards Electronic Catalogue. A British Standard does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of acontract.UsersofBritishStandardsareresponsiblefortheircorrect application. Compliance with a British Standard does not ofitself confer immunity from legal obligations. Summary of pages This document comprises a front cover, an inside front cover, pages i and ii, the ISo/IEC title page, pages ii to viii, pages 1 to 82, an inside back cover and a back cover. This standard has been updated (see copyright date) and may have had amendments incorporated. This will be indicated in the amendment table on theinsidefrontcover. Sidelining in this document indicates the most recent changes by amendment. This British Standard, having been prepared under the Amendments issued since publication direction of the DISC Board, was published under the Amd. No. Date Comments authority of the Standards Board andcomes 10491 into effect on August Indicated by a sideline 15 February 1997 1999 BSI08-1999 ISBN 0 580 26511 0 BS IS0/IEC 8326:1996 Contents Page National foreword Inside front cover Foreword viii Text of IS0/IEC 8326 1 BSI08-1999 i an ii BS ISO/IEC 8326 : 1996 INTERNATIONAL 1S0/IEC STANDARD 8326 Second edition 1996-09-15 Cor rected 1998-10-01 and 1998-12-15 Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Session service definition Technologies de /information - Interconnexion de systemes ouverts (Osl)-Definitionduservicedesession 产匠 Reference number 1S0/IEC 8326:1996(EI BS ISO/IEC 8326 : 1996 INTERNATIONAL 1S0/IEC STANDARD 8326 Second edition 1996-09-15 Cor rected 1998-10-01 and 1998-12-15 Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Session service definition Technologies de /information - Interconnexion de systemes ouverts (Osl)-Definitionduservicedesession 产匠 Reference number 1S0/IEC 8326:1996(EI BS ISO/IEC 8326 : 1996 INTERNATIONAL 1S0/IEC STANDARD 8326 Second edition 1996-09-15 Cor rected 1998-10-01 and 1998-12-15 Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Session service definition Technologies de /information - Interconnexion de systemes ouverts (Osl)-Definitionduservicedesession 产匠 Reference number 1S0/IEC 8326:1996(EI