scope:

Defines the Manufacturing Message Specification within the OSI application layer in terms of a) an abstract model defining the interaction between users of the service; b) the externally visible functionally of implementations conforming to ISO/IEC 9506, in the form of procedural requirements associated with the execution of service requests; c) the primitive actions and events of the service; d) the parameter data associated with each primitive action and event; e) the relationship between, and the valid sequences of, these actions and events.