AS/NZS 4149:1994

ISO/IEC 10589:1992
ISO/IEC 1058 9:1992/C or.1:199 3

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems— Intermediate system to
intermediate system intra-domain
routing information exchange
protocol for use in conjunction
with the protocol for providing
the connectionless-mode network
service
 AS/NZS 4149:1994

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical

Committee IT/1, Information Systems—Interconnection. It was approved on behalf of
the Council of Standards Australia on 22 September 1993 and on behalf of the Council
of Standards New Zealand on 22 April 1993. It was published on 18 April 1994.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies

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Australian Bankers Association

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Australian Committee of Directors and Principals
Australian Computer Society
Australian Computer Users Association
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Telecommunications Users Group
Australian Vice Chancellors Committee
Department of Defence, Australia
Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce, Australia
Information Exchange Steering Committee, Australia
Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, CSIRO, Australia
Life Insurance Federation of Australia
OPTUS Communications, Australia
Telecom Australia

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 AS/NZS 4149:1994

Australian/New Zealand Standard

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Information technology—
Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems—Intermediate system to
intermediate system intra-domain
routing information exchange
protocol for use in conjunction
with the protocol for providing
the connectionless-mode network
service

First published as Joint Standard AS/NZS 4149:1994.

PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY:

STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
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Homebush NSW 2140 Australia
STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND
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155 The Terrace,
Wellington 6001 New Zealand
ISBN 0 7262 8611 7
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Australia/New Zealand Standards Committee IT/1, on
Information Systems— Interconnection. It is identical with, and has been reproduced from,
ISO/IEC 10589:1992, Information technology— Telecommunications and information exchange between
systems— Intermediate system to Intermediate system intra-domain routeing information exchange
protocol for use in conjunction with the protocol for providing the connectionless-mode Network Service
(ISO 8473).
Technical Corrigendum 1:1993 is bound at the rear of this Standard. Text affected is marked by a
marginal bar.
This Joint Standard is one of a series of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Standards which are
currently under development. Since OSI Standards are developmental, there may be some minor
difficulties encountered in their implementation. For this reason, Standards Australia will be providing,
through the OSI Help Desk, a service to coordinate and disseminate information concerning difficulties
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which are identified in using this Joint Standard.

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Standards bodies, ISO and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, users of this Joint
Standard are advised of the following:
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For the purpose of this Joint Standard, the ISO/IEC text should be modified as follows:
(i) Terminology The words ‘Australian Standard’, ‘New Zealand Standard’ or ‘Joint Australian/
New Zealand Standard’ should replace the words ‘International Standard’ wherever they appear.
(ii) References The references to International Standards should be replaced by references to the
following Australian/New Zealand Standards:
Reference to International Standard Australian/New Zealand Standard
or other Publication
ISO AS
7498 Information processing systems— 2777 Information processing systems —
Open Systems Interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection —
Basic Reference Model Basic reference model
7498/Add.1 Addendum 1: Connectionless-mode 2777 Supplement 1: Connectionless-mode
Transmission transmission
7498-3 Part 3: Naming and addressing 2777.3 Part 3: Naming and addressing
7498-4 Part 4: Management framework 2777.4 Part 4: Management framework
8348 Information processing systems— 2994 Information processing systems —
Data communications — Network Data communications — Network
service definition service definition
8348/Add.1 Addendum 1: Connectionless-mode (Includes Addendum 1)
transmission
8348/Add.2 Addendum 2: Network layer Supplement 1: Network layer
addressing addressing
8473 Information processing systems— —
Data communications— Protocol for
providing the connectionless-mode
network service
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ISO AS
8648 Information processing systems— 3622 Information processing systems —
Open Systems Interconnection— Open Systems Interconnection —
Internal organisation of the Network Internal organization of the network
Layer layer
8802 Information processing systems— 4802 Information processing systems —
Local area networks— Local area networks
8802-2 Part 2: Logical link control 4802.2 Part 2: Logical link control
9542 Information processing systems— —
Telecommunications and information
exchange between systems —End
system to Intermediate system
Routeing exchange protocol for use
in conjunction with the protocol for
providing the connectionless-mode
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network service (ISO 8473)

ISO/IEC
8208 Inf ormation technology — D ata 3621 Information processing systems —
communications — X.25 packet Data communications — X.25 packet
Layer Protocol for Data Terminal level protocol for data terminal
Equipment equipment

8473 Information processing systems— —

Data communications— Protocol for
providing the connectionless-mode
network service
8743/Add.3: Provision of the underlying service —
assumed by ISO 8473 over
subnetworks which provide the OSI
data link service
8802 Information technology—Telecom- 4802 Information processing systems —
munications and infor mation Local area networks
exchange between systems — Local
area networks
8802-1 Part 1: General Introduction 4802.1 Part 1: Overview and architec-
ture
8802-3 Part 3: Carrier sense multiple 4802.3 Part 3: Carrier sense multiple
access with collision access with collision
detection (CSMA/CD ) detection ( CSMA /CD)
access method and access method and
physical layer specifi- physical layer specifi-
cations cations
8802-5 Part 5: Token ring access method 4802.5 Part 5: Token ring access method
and phy sical layer and phy sical l ayer
specifications specifications
8802-6 Part 6: Distributed Queue Dual 4802.6 Part 6: Distributed queue dual bus
Bus ( D Q DB) access subnetwork of a
method and physical layer metropolitan area network
specifications
9314 Information processing systems— 3734 I n f or mat io n sy ste ms — Equ ip-
Fiber Distributed Data Interface ment — Fibre distributed data
(FDDI) interface (FDDI)
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ISO/IEC AS/NZS
10039 Information technology — O pen 4094 Information technology — O pen
Systems Interconnection — Local Systems Interconnection — Local
area networks —Medium Access area networks —Medium access
Control (MAC) service definition control service definition

10165 Inf or mation technology —O pen

Systems Interconnection —Structure
of Management Information
10165-4 Part 4: G u i d e l i n e s f o r t h e —
definition of managed
objects
ISO/IEC TR AS
9575 Information technology—Telecom- 3969 Information technology— Telecom-
munications and infor mation munications and inf or mation
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exchange between systems —OSI exchange between systems— OSI

Routeing Framework Routing Framework
AS/NZS
9577 Information technology —Telecom- 4093 Information technology—Telecom-
munications and infor mation munications and inf or mation
exchange betw een systems — exchange between systems —
Protocol identification in the Protocol identification in the
network layer network layer

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CONTENTS

Page

1 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
4 Symbols and abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5 Typographical conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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6 Overview of the protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

7 Subnetwork independent functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8 Subnetwork dependent functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
9 Structure and encoding of PDUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
10 System environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
11 System management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
12 Conformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Annex A PICS pro forma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Annex B Supporting technical material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Annex C Implementation guidelines and examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Annex D Congestion control and avoidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Annex E Syntax imported from ISO 10165-5 (SC6 GM) . . . . . . . . . . 129
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AS/NZS 4149:1994, Information technology -

Telecommunications and information exchange
between systems - Intermediate system to
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intermediate system intra-domain routing

information exchange protocol for use in
conjunction with the protocol for providing the
connectionless-mode network service

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