scope:

The Open Document Architecture (ODA) base standard and associated profiles specify the means to represent and interchange complex documents.

Communication base standards and associated profiles, specifying interchange, remote manipulation and management of documents at the application layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model, have also been specified, as Document Transfer And Manipulation (DTAM) and Document Filing and Retrieval (DFR).

Standardizing document communication services will help implementors and service providers to extend the use and acceptance of these services in Europe. Furthermore, the standardization of document communication service profiles will facilitate interworking.

This ETS specifies ODA document communication services to be provided on top of existing base standards or profiles, giving constraints on them and rules on how to use and combine them.

This first Part of the ETS specifies basic services, such as storing-and-retrieval or manipulation. Complex services, such as asynchronous document production or joint document presentation, will be founded on basic services, and will specified in a future ETS. Some of these complex services are introduced in this Part of this ETS, in order to more clearly understand the complex services that could be built on top of the basic ones.