scope:

This Recommended Standard defines, in an abstract manner, the RAF service in terms of:

a) the operations necessary to provide the service;

b) the parameter data associated with each operation;

c) the behaviors that result from the invocation of each operation; and

d) the relationship between, and the valid sequence of, the operations and resulting behaviors.

It does not specify:

a) individual implementations or products;

b) the implementation of entities or interfaces within real systems;

c) the methods or technologies required to acquire telemetry frames from signals received from a spacecraft;

d) the methods or technologies required to provide a suitable environment for communications; or

e) the management activities required to schedule, configure, and control the RAF service.