RFC 1007 (rfc1007) - Page 1 of 23

Military supplement to the ISO Transport Protocol

Alternative Format: Original Text Document

Network Working Group                                         Wayne McCoy
Request for Comments: 1007                                       June 1987



                         MILITARY SUPPLEMENT

                               TO THE

                       ISO TRANSPORT PROTOCOL


Status of this Memo

   This RFC is being distributed to members of the Internet community
   in order to solicit comments on the Draft Military Supplement.
   While this document may not be directly relevant to the research
   problems of the Internet, it may  be of some interest to a number
   of researchers and implementors. Distribution of this memor is
   unlimited.


1. SCOPE

1.1   Purpose.

   This document supplements the Transport Service and Protocol of the
   International Standards Organization (ISO), IS 8072 and IS 8073,
   respectively, and their formal descriptions by providing conventions,
   option selections and parameter values to be used when the protocol
   is operated within the scope of the applicability statement in
   Paragraph 1.3 below.  Paragraph 1.4, below, describes the ISO
   standards.  Full implementation detail is not provided in this
   document, but reference is made to a separate document, entitled
   "Implementation Guide for the ISO Transport Protocol", in which
   guidance for implementation is given.

1.2  Organization.

   Five sections comprise this supplement.  In Section 1, the role and
   purpose of the Transport Protocol are stated and the international
   standards upon which the protocol is based are described.  These
   documents, as well as others supporting  the international standards
   and this supplement are listed in  Section 2.  Other definitions not
   already included in the international standards and supporting
   documents are given in Section 3.  The international standards cover
   a very wide variety of network environments and situations.  There
   is, thus, a collection of options and parameters provided by the
   standards which must be determined for specific uses.  Section 4
   states the options and parameters relevant to those implementations
   to which this supplement applies, and defines usage conventions.



McCoy

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