CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 18056-05 PDF

Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T).

At the time of publication, ISO/IEC 18056:2004 is available from ISO and IEC in English only. CSA will publish the French version when it becomes available from ISO and IEC.

1 Scope

This International Standard specifies an XML protocol for the services described in ISO/IEC 18051, Services for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III.

This International Standard provides an alternative protocol to the ASN.1 based protocol specified in ISO/IEC 18052.

Clause 5 to clause 8 inclusive describes the concepts underlying the request/response model, application association, notation and service, and a description of the template used in this Standard.

Clause 9 to clause 26 inclusive contains CSTA-specific protocol details and forms the main part of this Standard.

Annex A specifies the PICS for this Standard. Examples of CSTA XML encodings are provided in annex B through annex G.