scope:

Covers transfer of files between the filestores of two end systems, using the OSI connection-mode transport service to provide the interconnection. One end system acts in the initiator role and request access to the file, the other end system acts in the responder role and provides access to the file in the virtual filestore. Specifies implementations that support file transfer, i.e. the ability to: a) either read a complete file, or b) write (replace and/or extend and/or insert, depending on constraint set and document type) to a file, or c) both; and optionally to a) create and delete a file, and b) read the attributes of a file. Specifies how the OSI FTAM application standard shall be used to provide te functions defined above. It does not specify total system capability. In particular, a system may operate this profile and at the same time engage in other communications. The requirements placed on an implementation in this part of ISO/IEC ISP 10607 are solely those necessary for operaion of the protocol specified. Describes the actions and attributes of the virtual filestore, and the service provided by the file service provider to file service users, together with the necessary communications between the initiator and the responder.