RFC 1008 (rfc1008) - Page 1 of 73
Implementation guide for the ISO Transport Protocol
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group Wayne McCoy
Request for Comments: 1008 June 1987
IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE
FOR THE
ISO TRANSPORT PROTOCOL
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IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE FOR THE ISO TRANSPORT PROTOCOL
1 Interpretation of formal description.
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with both the formal
description technique, Estelle [ISO85a], and the transport protocol
as described in IS 8073 [ISO84a] and in N3756 [ISO85b].
1.1 General interpretation guide.
The development of the formal description of the ISO Transport
Protocol was guided by the three following assumptions.
1. A generality principle
The formal description is intended to express all of the behavior
that any implementation is to demonstrate, while not being bound
to the way that any particular implementation would realize that
behavior within its operating context.
2. Preservation of the deliberate
nondeterminism of IS 8073
The text description in the IS 8073 contains deliberate expressions
of nondeterminism and indeterminism in the behavior of the
transport protocol for the sake of flexibility in application.
(Nondeterminism in this context means that the order of execution
for a set of actions that can be taken is not specified.
Indeterminism means that the execution of a given action cannot be
predicted on the basis of system state or the executions of other
actions.)
McCoy