Subject: CPI-C conformance classes

From: "Jack Sanders (8-444-4459)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 16:45:37 EDT

A document containing a proposal for CPI-C conformance classes is now on
the CIW document library in /cic/sig/conformance/conform.ps.  Please
review the document and respond with comments and suggestions to the
conformance SIG ([email-masked]).  I will
update the document and redistribute it again before the next CIW
meeting, depending on the comments received.

The approach taken in the document is that agreed to in the CIW meeting.
A mandatory support group (conversations) is defined.  It corresponds to
CPI-C 1.0 with the addition of the Extract_Conversation_State call.
Additional support groups are defined, and a recommendation for each as
to whether to fold it into the mandatory or other support group is made.

The list of functional support groups defined - and the current
recommendation in the proposal for mandatory support is:
    Conversations (mandatory)
    LU 6.2
    OSI TP
    Transactions
    Unchained transactions
    Conversation-level non-blocking
    Queue-level non-blocking
    Callback function
    Server
    Data conversion - mandatory
    Security
    Distributed security
    Extended maximum buffer size - mandatory
    Full-duplex
    Expedited data
    Directory
    Initialization data
    Confirmation urgency
    Secondary information

The use of the cm_function_not_supported return code to indicate no
support and the definition of profiles will be considered for inclusion
in a later version of the document.

Regards,
Jack Sanders