CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 8473-3-97 (R2010)

The international community has decided to make this standard available only in the English language version. It has been adopted as a National Standard of Canada on this basis. This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 8473-3:1995. 1 Scope This Recommendation | International Standard specifies the way in which the underlying service assumed by the protocol defined by ITU-T Rec. X.233 | ISO/IEC 8473-1 is provided by a subnetwork that conforms to ITU-t Recommendation X.25 through the operation of a Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Function (SNDCF) as described in ISO/IEC 8648. This Recommendation | International Standard also provides the PICS proforma for this protocol, in compliance with the relevant requirements, and in accordance with the relevant guidance, given in CCITT Rec. X.290 | ISO/IEc 9646-1.