BS ISO/IEC 11578:1996

Section 1. General
    1.1 Scope
    1.2 Normative references
    1.3 Informative references
    1.4 Definitions
    1.5 Abbreviations
    1.6 Portability
    1.7 Services and Protocols
    1.8 Conformance Requirements
Section 2. Introduction to the RPC API
    2.1 RPC Programming Model Overview
    2.2 API Operations
    2.3 Binding
    2.4 Name Service Interface
    2.5 Server Model
    2.6 Server Resource Models
    2.7 Security
    2.8 Error Handling
    2.9 Cancel Notification
    2.10 Stubs
    2.11 RPC API Routine Taxonomy
Section 3. RPC API Manual Pages
    3.1 RPC Data Types
Section 4. Interface Definition Language
    4.1 Notation
    4.2 IDL Language Specification
    4.3 The Attribute Configuration Source
    4.4 IDL Grammar Synopsis
    4.5 IDL Constructed Identifiers
    4.6 IDL and ACS Reserved Words
Section 5. Stubs
    5.1 The application/Stub Interface
    5.2 Interoperability Requirements on Stubs
Section 6. Remote Procedure Call Model
    6.1 Client/Server Execution Model
    6.2 Binding, Addressing and Name Services
    6.3 Error Handling Model
Section 7. RPC Service Definition
    7.1 Call Representation Data Structure
    7.2 Service Primitives
Section 8. Statechart Specification Language Semantics
    8.1 The Elements of Statecharts
    8.2 State Hierarchies
    8.3 Concurrency
    8.4 Graphical Expressions
    8.5 Semantics that Require Special Consideration
    8.6 Summary of Language Elements
Section 9. RPC Protocol Definitions
    9.1 Conformance
    9.2 RPC Stub to Run-time Protocol Machine Interactions
    9.3 Connection-oriented Protocol
    9.4 Connection-oriented Protocol Machines
    9.5 Connectionless Protocol
    9.6 Connectionless Protocol Machines
    9.7 Naming Conventions
Section 10. Connectionless RPC Protocol Machines
    10.1 CL_CLIENT Machine
    10.2 CL_SERVER Machine
Section 11. Connection-oriented RPC Protocol Machines
    11.1 CO_CLIENT Machine
    11.2 CO_CLIENT ALLOC Machine
    11.3 CO_CLIENT_GROUP Machine
    11.4 CO_SERVER Machine
    11.5 CO_SERVER_GROUP Machine
Section 12. RPC PDU Encodings
    12.1 Generic PDU Structure
    12.2 Encoding Conventions
    12.3 Alignment
    12.4 Common Fields
    12.5 Connectionless RPC PDUs
    12.6 Connection-oriented RPC PDUs
Section 13. Security
    13.1 The Generic RPC Security Model
    13.2 Security Services for Connection-oriented Protocol
    13.3 Security Services for Connectionless Protocol
Section 14. Transfer Syntax NDR
    14.1 Data Representation Format Label
    14.2 NDR Primitive Types
    14.3 NDR Constructed Types
    14.4 NDR Input and Output Streams
Annex A Universal Unique identifier
Annex B Protocol Sequence Strings
Annex C Name Syntax Constants
Annex D Authentication, Authorisation and Protection-
          level Arguments
Annex E Reject Status Codes and Parameters
Annex F IDL to C-language Mappings
Annex G Portable Character Set
Annex H Endpoint Mapper Well-known Ports
Annex I Protocol Identifiers
Annex J DCE CDS Attribute Names
Annex K Architected and Default Values for Protocol Machines
Annex L Protocol tower Encoding
Annex M The dce_error_inq_text Manual Page
Annex N IDL Data Type Declarations
Annex O Endpoint Mapper Interface Definition
Annex P Conversation Manager Interface Definition
Annex Q Remote Management Interface
Annex R Mapping of RPC Protocol to an OSI Infrastructure
List of Figures
List of Tables

Addresses issues concerning the Remote Procedure Call (RPC).