This Recommendation | International Standard is based on the framework of abstractions and concepts developed in the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (ITU-T Rec. X.902 | ISO/IEC 10746-2 and ITU-T Rec. X.903 | ISO/IEC 10746-3).
This Recommendation | International Standard defines how interactions between computational objects in a computational specification of a system relate to protocol support for those interactions in an engineering specification of that system. In particular it:
As specified in this Recommendation | International Standard, the GIF defines protocol support for a pragmatic subset of the possible computational interactions defined in ITU-T Rec. X.903 | ISO/IEC 10746-3. It is also restricted in the features of the protocol support and the supported transparencies.
The GIF, as specified here, defines:
The GIF supports at least some forms of:
The GIF as specified here also supports a limited equivalent of relocation transparency. Other transparencies are not addressed in this present specification.
The GIF does not explicitly model Quality of Service requirements.
The application of security-related issues to the GIF are not included in the current text and are for further study.
The set of mappings to particular protocols specified in annexes to this Recommendation | International Standard is not exhaustive. The GIF could be mapped to other protocols.
| SDO | ISO: International Organization for Standardization |
| Document Number | ISO/IEC 14752 |
| Publication Date | Not Available |
| Language | en - English |
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| Committee | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 |