AS/NZS 4210.

3:1994
ISO/IEC 10025-3:1993

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—Transport conformance
testing for connection-mode
transport protocol operating over
connection-mode network service

Part 3: Transport test management

protocol specification
 AS/NZS 4210.3:1994

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 20 May 1994 and on behalf of the Council of
Standards New Zealand on 9 May 1994. It was published on 11 July 1994.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

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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 Vice Chancellors Committee
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Technology and Regional Development, Australia
Government Computing Service, New Zealand
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
OPTUS Communications, Australia
Telecom Australia
Telecom New Zealand

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 AS/NZS 4210.3:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—Transport conformance
testing for connection-mode
transport protocol operating over
connection-mode network service

Part 3: Transport test management

protocol specification

First publi shed as Joint Standard AS/NZS 4210.3:1994.

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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Committee IT/1 on
Information Systems—Interconnection. It is identical with and has been reproduced from
ISO/IEC 10025-3:1993, Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between
systems—Transport conformance testing for connection-mode transport protocol operating over
connection-mode network service, Part 3: Transport test management protocol specification.
This Standard is issued as a Joint Standard under the terms of the Active Cooperation Agreement between
Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand.
The objective of this Standard is to provide users of OSI networks a specification for a structure and
encoding of the test management protocol data units used for the transfer of data and control information
from a lower tester to an upper tester.
This Standard is one of a series of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Standards which are currently
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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 Standard.
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For the purpose of this Standard, the source text should be modified as follows:
(a) Terminology The words ‘this Australian/New Zealand Standard’ should replace the words ‘this
International Standard’ wherever they appear.
(b) Decimal marker Substitute a full point for a comma where it appears as a decimal marker.
(c) References The references to international Standards should be replaced by references, where
appropriate, to the following Australian or Joint Australian/New Zealand Standards:
Reference to International Standard Australian or Joint
or other publication Australian/New Zealand Standard
ISO AS
7498 Information processing systems— 2777 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Basic Reference Model Basic reference model
8072 Information processing systems— 2911 Information processing systems—
Open Systems Interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection—
Transport Service Definition Transport service definition
ISO/IEC AS/NZS
9046 In for mat i o n t ec hno l og y— Ope n 4103 In f or m at i o n t ec h no l og y— O pe n
S yst ems Int erconnect i on— C on- S y st e ms In t er con ne ct i on— C o n-
formance testing methodology and formance testing methodology and
framework framework
9646-1 Part 1: General concepts 4103.1 Part 1: General concepts
9646-2 Part 2: Abstract test suite speci- 4103.2 Part 2: Abstract test suite speci-
fication fication
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CONTENTS

Page

1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Conformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

3 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

4 Definitions .. .. . .. ... . ... .. . .. .. .. . .. ... . ... . .. ... ... .. . .. ... . .. ... .. .. . 2

5 Symbols and abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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6 Overview of the test management protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

7 Elements of procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

8 Structure and encoding of TMPDUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Annexes

A State tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

B Test Management PICS Proforma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

C Examples of Test Management Protocol use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

D Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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NOTES
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Information technology—Telecommunications and

information exchange between systems—Transport
conformance testing for connection-mode transport
protocol operating over connection-mode network
service

Part 3:
Transport test management protocol specification
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1 Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 10025 defines

a) procedures for a single protocol for the transfer of data and control information from a lower tester to an
upper tester;

b) the structure and encoding of the test management protocol data units used for the transfer of data and
control information;

The procedures are defined in terms of

a) the interactions between test management entities through the exchange of test management protocol data
units;

b) the interactions between a test management entity and the Transport Service provider through the exchange
of Transport Service primitives.

2 Conformance
A system claiming to conform to the procedures in this part of ISO/IEC 10025 shall implement all mandatory
features.

The supplier of a protocol implementation which is claimed to conform to this part of ISO/IEC 10025 shall
complete a copy of the PICS Proforma provided in annex B and shall provide the information necessary to identify
both the supplier and the implementation.

3 Normative references
The following standards contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this part
of ISO/IEC 10025. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to
revision, and parties to agreements based on this part of ISO/IEC 10025 are encouraged to investigate the
possibility of applying the most recent editions of the standards listed below. Members of IEC and ISO maintain
registers of currently valid International Standards.

ISO 7498: 1984, Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - Basic Reference Model.

ISO 8072: 1986, Information processing systems - Open Systems Interconnection - Transport Service Definition.

ISO/IEC 9646-1: 1991, Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Conformance testing
methodology and framework - Part 1: General concepts.

ISO/IEC 9646-2: 1991, information technology - Open Systems Interconnection - Conformance testing
methodology and framework - Part 2: Abstract test suite specification.

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