AS/NZS 3651:1994

ISO 9542:1988

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information processing systems—

Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—End system to
intermediate system routing
exchange protocol for use in
conjunction with the protocol for
providing the connectionless-mode
network service
 AS/NZS 3651:1994

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical

Committee IT/1, Information Systems — Interconnection. It was approved on behalf
of the Council of Standards Australia on 12 October 1993 and on behalf of the
Council of Standards New Zealand on 26 July 1993. It was published on
17 January 1994.
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The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies
Australian Bankers Association
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Australian Committee of Directors and Principals
Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Users Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Telecommunications Users Group
Australian Vice Chancellors Committee
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce, Australia
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
Life Insurance Federation of Australia
OPTUS Communications, Australia
Telecom Australia

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 AS/NZS 3651:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information processing systems—

Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—End system to
intermediate system routing
exchange protocol for use in
conjunction with the protocol for
providing the connectionless-mode
network service

First published as Joint Standard AS/NZS 3651:1994.

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Australia/New Zealand Standards Committee IT/1, on
Information Systems— Interconnection. It is identical with, and has been reproduced from,
ISO 9542:1988, Information processing systems — Telecommunications and information exchange
between systems — End system to Intermediate system routeing exchange protocol for use in
conjunction with the Protocol for providing the connectionless-mode network service (ISO 8473) .
This Joint Standard is one of a series of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Standards which are
currently under development. Since OSI Standards are developmental, there may be some minor
difficulties encountered in their implementation. For this reason, Standards Australia will be
providing, through the OSI Help Desk, a service to coordinate and disseminate information
concerning difficulties which are identified in using this Joint Standard.
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Standards bodies, ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, users of this Joint
Standard are advised of the following:
(a) In Australia, copyright is vested in Standards Australia. In New Zealand, copyright is vested
in Standards New Zealand.
(b) The number of this Joint Standard is not reproduced on each page; its identity is shown only
on the cover and title pages.
For the purpose of this Joint Standard, the ISO/IEC text should be modified as follows:
(i) Terminology The words ‘Australian Standard’, ‘New Zealand Standard’ or ‘Joint
Australian/New Zealand Standard’ should replace the words ‘International Standard’ wherever
they appear.
(ii) References The references to International Standards should be replaced by references to the
following Australian/New Zealand Standards:
Reference to International Standard Australian/New Zealand Standard
or other Publication
ISO AS
7498 Information processing systems — 2777 Information processing systems —
Open systems interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Basic reference model Basic reference model
7498/Add.1 Addendum 1: Connectionless- 2777 Supp1 Supplement 1: Connectionless-
mode transmission mode transmission
7498/Add.4 Addendum 4: OSI Management 2777.4 Part 4: Management framework
Framework
8208 Information processing systems — 3621 Information processing systems —
Data communications — X.25 Data communications — X .25
Packet Level Protocol for Data packet level protocol for data
Terminal Equipment terminal equipment

8348 Information processing systems — 2994 Information processing systems —

Data communications — Network Data communications— Network
Service Definition service definition (includes
8348/Add.1 Addendum 1: Connectionless- 8348/Add.1)
mode Transmission
8348/Add.2 Addendum 2: Network Layer 2994 Supp1 Supplement 1: Network layer
Addressing addressing
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ISO AS/NZS
8473 Information processing systems — 3682 Information processing systems —
Data communications —Protocol Data communications— Protocol
for providing the connectionless- for providing the connectionless-
mode Network Service mode network service
AS
8648 Information processing systems — 3622 Information processing systems —
Open Systems Interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Internal organization of the Internal organization of the
Network layer network layer
8802 Information processing systems — 4802 Information processing systems —
Data communications — Local Local area networks
Area Networks
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CCITT
X.25 Interface Between Data Terminal —
Equipment (DTE) and Data
Circuit Terminating Equipment
(DCE) for Terminals Operating
in the Packet Mode and
Connected to Public Data
Networks by Dedicated Circuit

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CONTENTS

Page

0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1 Scope and Field of application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Section one: General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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4 Symbols and Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

5 Overview of the Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Section two: Specification of the protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

6 Protocol Functions .... .. ... .. ..... ..... ................. 7

7 Structure and Encoding of PDUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

8 Conformance .... .. ... .. ..... ..... .................. .. 17

Annex A PICS Proformas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Annex B Supporting Technical Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Annex C State Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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Information processing systems—
Telecommunications and information exchange
between systems— End system to intermediate
system routing exchange protocol for use in
conjunction with the protocol for providing the
connectionless-mode network service
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0 Introduction
This International Standard is one of a set of Interna-
tional Standards produced to facilitate the interconnec-
tion of open systems. The set of standards covers the
services and protocols required to achieve such intercon-
nection.
This International Standard is positioned with respect
to other related standards by the layers defined in
ISO 7498 and by the structure defined in ISO 8648. In
particular, it is a protocol of the Network Layer. This
International Standard permits End Systems and Inter-
mediate Systems to exchange configuration and routeing
information to facilitate the operation of the routeing and
relaying functions of the Network Layer.
The aspects of Network Layer routeing that are
concerned with communication between End Systems
and Intermediate Systems on the same subnetwork are to
a great extent separable from the aspects that are con-
cerned with communication among the Intermediate
Systems that connect multiple subnetworks. This pro-
tocol addresses only the former aspects. It will be sig-
nificantly enhanced by the cooperative operation of an
additional protocol that provides for the exchange of
routeing information among Intermediate Systems, but is
useful whether or not such an additional protocol is
available.
This International Standard is designed to operate in
close conjunction with ISO 8473 and its addenda.
This International Standard provides solutions for the
following practical problems.
a) How do End Systems discover the existence and
reachability of Intermediate Systems that can route
NPDUs to destinations on subnetworks other than
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the one(s) to which the End System is directly
connected?
b) How do End Systems discover the existence and
reachability of other End Systems on the same
subnetwork (when direct examination of the
destination NSAP address does not provide
information about the destination subnetwork
address)?
c) How do Intermediate Systems discover the exis-
tence and reachability of End Systems on each of
the subnetworks to which they are directly con-
nected?
d) How do End Systems decide which Intermediate
System to use to forward NPDUs to a particular
destination when more than one Intermediate
System is accessible?
The protocol assumes that:
a) routeing to a specified subnetwork point of attach-
ment address (SNPA) on the same subnetwork is
carried out satisfactorily by the subnetwork itself,
but
b) the subnetwork is not, however, capable of route-
ing on a global basis using the NSAP address
alone to achieve communication with a requested
destination. 1)
In addition, certain protocol functions assume that:
c) the subnetwork supports broadcast, multicast, or
other forms of multi-destination addressing for n-
way transmission.
1)
Consequently, it is not possible to use Application Layer
communication to carry out the functions of this International
Standard.
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The protocol is connectionless, and is designed to:
minimize the amount of a priori state information
needed by End Systems before they can begin to
communicate with other End Systems;
minimize the amount of memory needed to store
routeing information in end systems; and
minimize the computational complexity of End
System routeing algorithms.
1 Scope and Field of Application
This International Standard specifies a protocol which is
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used by Network Layer entities operating ISO 8473 in
End Systems and Intermediate Systems (referred to
herein as ES and IS respectively) to maintain routeing
information. The Protocol herein described relies upon
the provision of a connectionless-mode underlying
service. 1)
This International Standard specifies:
a) procedures for the transmission of configuration
and routeing information between Network entities
residing in End Systems and Network entities
residing in Intermediate Systems;
b) the encoding of the protocol data units used for
the transmission of the configuration and routeing
information;
c) procedures for the correct interpretation of
protocol control information; and
d) the functional requirements for implementations
claiming conformance to this International Stan-
dard.
The procedures are defined in terms of:
a) the interactions between End System and Inter-
mediate System Network entities through the
exchange of protocol data units; and
b) the interactions between a Network entity and an
underlying service provider through the exchange
of subnetwork service primitives.
1)
See Clause 8 of ISO 8473 for the mechanisms necessary to realize
this service on subnetworks based on ISO 8208 and ISO 8802.
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This International Standard does not specify any
protocol elements or algorithms for facilitating routeing
and relaying among Intermediate Systems. Such
functions are intentionally beyond the scope of this
International Standard.
2 References
ISO 7498, Information processing systems — Open
systems interconnection — Basic reference model.
ISO 7498/Add.1, Information processing systems —
Open systems interconnection — Basic reference model.
ADDENDUM 1: Connectionless-mode transmission.
ISO 7498/Add.4, Information processing systems —
Open systems interconnection — Basic reference model.
ADDENDUM 4: OSI Management Framework.
ISO 8208, Information processing systems — Data
communications — X.25 Packet Level Protocol for Data
Terminal Equipment.
ISO 8348, Information processing systems — Data
communications — Network Service Definition.
ISO 8348/Add.1, Information processingsystems — Data
communications — Network Service Definition.
ADDENDUM 1: Connectionless-mode Transmission.
ISO 8348/Add.2, Information processingsystems — Data
communications — Network Service Definition.
ADDENDUM 2: Network Layer Addressing.
ISO 8473, Information processing systems — Data
communications — Protocol for providing the connec-
tionless-mode Network Service.
ISO 8648, Information processing systems — Open
Systems Interconnection — Internal organization of the
Network layer.
ISO 8802, Information processing systems — Data
communications — Local Area Networks.
CCITT X.25, Interface Between Data Terminal
Equipment (DTE) and Data Circuit Terminating
Equipment (DCE) for Terminals Operating in the Packet
Mode and Connected to Public Data Networks by
Dedicated Circuit, 1985.
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AS/NZS 3651:1994, Information processing

systems - Telecommunications and information
exchange between systems - End system to
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intermediate system routing exchange protocol for

use in conjunction with the protocol for providing
the connectionless-mode network service

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