CSA Z243.160 : 0

Technical Committee on Open Systems
Preface
0 Introduction
1 Scope and Field of Application
2 References
3 Definitions
   3.1 Reference Model Definitions
   3.2 Service Conventions Definitions
   3.3 Naming and Addressing Definitions
   3.4 Presentation-Service Definitions
4 Abbreviations
5 Conventions
Section One: General
6 Overview of the Presentation Service
   6.1 Purpose
   6.2 Relationship to Application Layer
   6.3 Relationship to Session Layer
   6.4 Features of the Presentation Layer
   6.5 Negotiation of Syntax
   6.6 Information Transfer
   6.7 Presentation Context Definition
   6.8 Management of the DCS
7 Facilities of the Service
   7.1 The Connection Establishment Facility
   7.2 The Connection Termination Facility
   7.3 The Context Management Facility
   7.4 The Information Transfer Facility
   7.5 The Dialogue Control Facility
8 Functional Units
9 Quality of Service
Section Two: Definition of Service
Primitives
10 Presentation Service Primitives
   10.1 User Data Parameters
   10.2 P-CONNECT Service
   10.3 P-U-ABORT Service
   10.4 P-P-ABORT Service
   10.5 P-ALTER-CONTEXT Service
   10.6 P-TYPED-DATA Service
   10.7 P-DATA Service
   10.8 P-RESYNCHRONIZE Service
   10.9 P-ACTIVITY-START Service
   10.10 P-ACTIVITY-RESUME Service
   10.11 P-ACTIVITY-INTERRUPT Service
   10.12 P-ACTIVITY-DISCARD Service
   10.13 P-ACTIVITY-END Service
   10.14 P-CAPABILITY-DATA Service
   10.15 P-CONTROL-GIVE Service
   10.16 P-TOKEN-GIVE Service
   10.17 P-TOKEN-PLEASE Service
   10.18 P-U-EXCEPTION-REPORT Service
   10.19 P-P-EXCEPTION-REPORT Service
   10.20 P-EXPEDITED-DATA Service
   10.21 P-SYNC-MINOR Service
   10.22 P-SYNC-MAJOR Service
   10.23 P-RELEASE Service
11 Sequences
   11.1 P-CONNECT Service
   11.2 P-U-ABORT Service
   11.3 P-P-ABORT Service
   11.4 P-ALTER-CONTEXT Service
   11.5 P-TYPED-DATA and P-DATA Services
   11.6 P-CAPABILITY-DATA Service
   11.7 P-EXPEDITED-DATA Service
   11.8 P-SYNC-MINOR, P-SYNC-MAJOR, P-RELEASE,
         P-ACTIVITY-START, P-PLEASE-TOKENS, P-GIVE-TOKENS,
         P-GIVE-CONTROL, P-ACTIVITY-END, and
         P-ACTIVITY-RESUME Services
   11.9 P-RESYNCHRONIZE, P-U-EXCEPTION-REPORT,
         P-P EXCEPTION-REPORT, P-ACTIVITY-INTERRUPT, and
         P-ACTIVITY-DISCARD Services
ANNEX A - Restrictions on the use of the
          Presentation-service in X.410-1984 Mode

Abstractly defines the externally visible service provided by the OSI Presentation Layer in the following terms: (a) The primitive actions and events at the service/user boundary; (b) The parameter data associated with each primitive action and event; (c) the relationship between and the valid sequences of, those ac and events.