ISO Protocol Family
The ISO family of protocols isn't widely used, as the InternetProtocolFamily is much more common today.
Specifications of all of these protocols can be found in the ISO documents, which are (with some exceptions) not available free of charge. They can be found in the catalog of ISO standards.
A simplified overview of the core ISO protocols could look like this:
7 |
Application layer (FTAM, ...) |
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6 |
Presentation Protocol |
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5 |
Session Protocol |
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4 |
COTP (connections) |
CLTP connectionless) |
3 |
Internet (CLNP, ES-IS) |
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2 |
Link layer (LLC, ...) |
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Protocols
The ISO family consists of (at least) the following protocols:
Link layer:
LLC: ISO 8802-2 Logical Link Control (also an IEEE protocol standard, 802.2)
Network layer:
CLNP: ISO 8473 ConnectionLess network protocol: transfer IP packets from one host to another, similar to IP
Network layer (routing):
- -: ISO 8348 Network Service Definition
ES-IS: ISO 9542 ESIS Routing Information Exchange Protocol
IS-IS: ISO 10589 ISIS InTRA Domain Routing Information Exchange Protocol
Transport Layer:
- -: ISO 8072 ISO Transport Service Definition
COTP: ISO 8073 COTP Connection-Oriented Transport Protocol, similar to TCP (spec. available as RFC905)
CLTP: ISO 8602 CLTP ConnectionLess Transport Protocol, similar to UDP
Transport layer (emulated by TCP/UDP):
TPKT: RFC1006 "ISO transport services on top of the TCP: Version 3", updated by RFC2126
-: RFC1240 "OSI Connectionless Transport Services on top of UDP Version: 1"
Session layer:
SES: ISO 8327-1 OSI Session Protocol
Presentation layer:
PRES: ISO 8823/ITU-T X.226 OSI Presentation Protocol
Application layer:
Core Services:
ACSE: ISO/IEC 9594-2, ITU-T X.227 Application Control Service Element protocol
RTSE: ISO/IEC 9066-2, ITU-T X.228 Reliable Transfer Service Element protocol
ROSE: ISO/IEC 13712-1, ITU-T X.880 Remote Operations Service Element protocol
Messaging Services:
X411: ISO/IEC 10021-4, ITU-T X.411 Message Transfer System: Abstract Service, equivalent to SMTP
X413: ISO/IEC 10021-5, ITU-T X.413 Message Store: Abstract Service, equivalent to IMAP
X420: ISO/IEC 10021-7, ITU-T X.420 Interpersonal Messaging System
S4406: STANAG 4406 Miltary Messaging
Directory Services:
DAP: ISO/IEC 9594-3, ITU-T X.511 Directory Access Protocol, equivalent to LDAP
DSP: ISO/IEC 9594-4, ITU-T X.518 Directory System Protocol
DISP: ISO/IEC 9594-9, ITU-T X.525 Directory Information Shadowing Protocol
DOP: ISO/IEC 9594-8, ITU-T X.501 Directory Operational Management Binding Protocol
Miscellaneous:
MMS: ISO 9506 Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS)
Unsorted:
History
XXX - add a brief description of ISO protocol history?
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