Specifies the general capabilities of an RDA Service. These generic capabilities are intended to be used for interaction with many different database management systems. Describes the generic capabilities of (a) the model of Remote Database Access (section 2, Model); (b) the RDA Service that supports interaction between the RDA client and the database server - specifically, its communicating part, called the RDA server (section 3, Service); (c) the RDA Protocol by which the RDA client and the database server - specifically, the RDA server - communicate with each other (section 4, Protocol); and (d) the application-contexts of which the RDA Service is a part, including additional rules and the mapping onto underlying services (section 5, Application-contexts). Also specifies the rules for defining a specialized RDA Service and constructing an RDA Specialization Standard for it (section 6, Specializations).