Applicable to the provision of access control for applications that use OSI management services and protocols. This standard - establishes user requirements for the provision of access control for applications that use OSI management services and protocols; - interprets and applies the general model of access control defined in ITU-T Rec. X.812 / ISO/IEC 10181-3 for use with management applications that use OSI management services and protocols; - defines procedures for the imposition of access control rules in conjunction with the use of OSI management services and protocols; - defines managed object classes and attribute types that (a) represent some of the access control information that may be used in the provision of access control; and (b) are only for use when the management of the access control information is to be achieved using systems management; - specifies the protocol that is necessary to exchange the access control information defined in this Recommendation / International Standard, when the exchange is achieved using OSI systems management; - specifies conformance requirements for open systems that claim to support access control for applications that use OSI management services and protocols; - specifies conformance requirements for open systems that claim to support the management of the access control information defined in this Recommendation / International Standard.