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- Recommendation Q.773
- TRANSACTION CAPABILITIES FORMATS AND ENCODING
- 1 Introduction
- This Recommendation provides the format and encoding of
- Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP) messages. Formats
- and Encoding for the Intermediate Service Part (ISP) are for further
- study. This Recommendation is based on the encoding rules provided in
- CCITT Recommendation X.209 and is consistent with that
- Recommendation.
- 2 Description conventions
- This Recommendation does not use Recommendation X.209 formal
- description language. This Recommendation uses the description method
- of other Q.700 series Recommendations. Annex A uses the formal
- decription language to supplement this Recommendation.
- 3 Standard representation
- 3.1 General message structure
- Each information element within TCAP message has the same
- structure. An information element consists of three fields, which
- always appear in the following order. The Tag distinguishes one type
- from another and governs the interpretation of the Contents. The
- Length specifies the length of the Contents. The Contents is the
- substance of the element, containing the primary information the
- element is intended to convey. Figure 1/Q.733 shows an overview of a
- TCAP message and an information element.
- Fig. 1/Q.773 /T1120490-88 = 4.5 cm
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- Each field is coded using one or more octets. Octets are
- labelled as shown in Figure 2/Q.773. The first octet is
- the first transmitted. Bits in an octet are labelled as shown in
- Figure 3/Q.773, with bit A the least significant and the first
- transmitted.
- Fig. 2/Q.773 /T1120500-88 = 4.5 cm
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- Fig. 3/Q.773 /T1120510-88 = 4.5 cm
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- The contents of each eleent is either one value (Primitive) or
- one or more information elements (Constructor), as shown in Figure
- 4/Q.773.
- Fig. 4/Q.773 /T1120520-88 = 5 cm
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- 3.2 Tag
- An information element is first interpreted according to its
- position within the syntax of the message. The Tag distinguishes one
- information element from another and governs the interpretation of
- the Contents. It is one or more octets in length. The Tag is composed
- of "Class", "Form" and "Tag code", as shown in Figure 5/Q.773.
- Fig. 5/Q.773 /T1120530-88 = 3 cm
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- 3.2.1 Tag class
- All Tags use the two most significant bits (H and G) to
- indicate the Tag Class. These bits are coded as shown in Table
- 1/Q.773.
- TABLE 1/Q.773
- Coding of tag class
- Class Coding (HG)
- Universal 00
- Application-wide 01
- Context-specific 10
- Private use 11
- a
- all CCITT Recommendations, i.e. across CCITT No. 7 ASEs, X.400 MHS,
- etc.
- The Application-wide class is used for information elements
- that are standardized across all applications (ASEs) using CCITT No.
- 7 TC, i.e. TC-Users.
- The Context-specific class is used for information elements
- that are specified within the context of the next higher construction
- and take into account the sequence of other data elements within the
- same construction. This class may be used for tags in a construction,
- and the tags may be re-used in any other construction.
- The Private Use class is reserved for information elements
- specific to a nation, a network or a private user. Such information
- elements are beyond the scope of the TC Recommendations.
- The Tag codes of the Application-wide class not assigned in
- this Recommendation are reserved for future use.
- 3.2.2 Form of the element
- Bit F is used to indicate whether the element is "Primitive"
- or "Constructor", as is shown in Table 2/Q.773. A primitive element
- is one whose structure is atomic (i.e. one value only). A constructor
- element is one whose content is one or more information elements
- which may themselves be constructor elements.
- Both forms of elements are shown in Figure 4/Q.773.
- TABLE 2/Q.773
- Coding element form
- Element form Coding (F)
- Primitive 0
- Constructor 1
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- 3.2.3 Tag code
- Bits A to E of the first octet of the Tag plus any extension
- octets represent a Tag code that distinguishes one element type from
- another of the same class. Tag codes in the range 00000 to 11110 (0
- to 30 decimal) are provided in one octet.
- The extension mechanism is to code bits A to E of the first
- octet as 11111. Bit H of the following octet serves as an extension
- indication. If bit H of the extension octet is set to 0, then no
- further octets for this tag are used. If bit H is set to 1, the
- following octet is also used for extension of the Tag code. The
- resultant Tag consists of bits A to G of each extension octet, with
- bit G of the first extension octet being most significant and bit A
- of the last extension octet being least significant. Tag code 31 is
- encoded as 0011111 in bits G to A of a single extension octet. Higher
- tag codes continue from this point using the minimum possible number
- of extension octets.
- Figure 6/Q.773 shows the detailed format of the Tag code.
- Figure 6/Q.773 /T1106430-87 = 6.5 cm
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- 3.3 Length of the Contents
- The Length of the Contents is coded to indicate the number of
- octets in the Contents. The length does not include the Tag nor the
- Length of the Contents octets.
- The Length of the Contents uses the short, long or indefinite
- form. If the length is less than 128 octets, the short form is used.
- In the short form, bit H is coded 0, and the length is encoded as a
- binary number using bits A to G.
- If the Length of the contents is greater than 127 octets, then
- the long form of the Length of the Contents is used. The long form
- Length is from 2 to 127 octets long. Bit H of the first octet is
- coded 1, and bits A to G of the first octet encode a number one less
- than the size of the Length in octets as an unsigned binary number
- whose MSB and LSB are bits G and A, respectively. The length itself
- is encoded as an unsigned binary number whose MSB and LSB are bit H
- of the second octet and bit A of the last octet, respectively. This
- binary number should be encoded in the fewest possible octets, with
- no leading octets having the value 0.
- The indefinite form is one octet long and may (but need not)
- be used in place of the short or long form, whenever the element is a
- constructor. It has the value 10000000. When this form is employed, a
- special end-of-contents (EOC) indicator terminates the Contents.
- There is no notation for the end-of-contents indicator.
- Although considered part of the Contents syntactically, the
- end-of-contents indicator has no semantic significance.
- The representation for the end-of-contents indicator is an
- element whose class is universal, whose form is primitive, whose ID
- Code has the value 0, and whose Contents is unused and absent:
- EOC Length Contents
- 00(hex) 00(hex) Absent
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