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The Manufacturing Message Specification is an application layer standard designed to support messaging communications to and from programmable devices in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) environment. This part of ISO/IEC 9506 specifies: a) procedures for a single protocol for the transfer of data and control information one application entity to a peer applicaion entity in the MMS-context; b) the means of selecting the services to be used by the application entities while communicating in the MMS-context; c) the structere of the Manufacturing Messaging Specification Protocol Data Units for the transfer of data and control information.