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- APPENDIX IV
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- (to Recommendation X.223)
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- Differences between Recommendation X.223 and ISO 8878
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- The following differences exist between Recommendation X.223 and
- ISO 8878.
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- IV.1 In Recommendation X.223, the text in 6.2.2.1.1 specifies that given
- conditions a) through d), the address is always carried in the Address Field (AF).
- ISO 8878 specifies that given conditions a) through c) (ISO 8878 does not include
- condition d), the address may optionally be carried in the AF.
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- IV.2 In Recommendation X.223, the text in 6.2.4 specifies that if "no use of
- Expedited Data" is indicated or if the NL entity cannot support 32-octet INTERRUPT
- packets, then the EDN facility is always omitted. For the same case, ISO 8878
- specifies that the EDN facility either may be carried specifying "no use of
- Expedited Data", or may be omitted.
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- IV.3 In 6.2.5.1 (Throughput QOS Parameters) of Recommendation X.223, two new
- paragraphs have been added which are not present in ISO 8878. These paragraphs are
- the last paragraph in 6.2.5.1.1, and the last paragraph in 6.2.5.1.2.
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- Collectively, these paragraphs specify that whenever the Lowest Quality
- Acceptable sub-parameters of the Throughput QOS Parameters for both directions are
- "unspecified" in the N-CONNECT request, the MTCN facility is not included in the
- CALL REQUEST packet. ISO 8878 specifies that in such a case, the MTCN facility is
- encoded as 75 bits per second.
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- IV.4 In 6.2.5.2 (Transit Delay QOS Parameter) of Recommendation X.223, four
- new paragraphs have been added which are not present in ISO 8878. These paragraphs
- are the last paragraph in 6.2.5.2.1, the last paragraph in 6.2.5.2.2, the last
- paragraph in 6.2.5.2.3, and the last paragraph in 6.2.5.2.4.
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- Collectively, these paragraphs specify that whenever the Target and Lowest
- Quality Acceptable sub-parameters of the Transit Delay QOS Parameter are
- "unspecified" in the N-CONNECT request, the EETDN facility is not included in the
- CALL REQUEST packet. ISO 8878 does not explicitly address such a case, and
- actually implicitly invalidates it per the conditions in items a) -d).
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- Additionally, in 6.2.5.2.1 of Recommendation X.223, the last sentence in
- item d) specifies that in DTE-to-DTE operational environments the usage of the
- TDSAI facility is for further study. ISO 8878 does not have such a sentence.
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- IV.5 In 6.2.5.2.1 of Recommendation X.223, there is only one note after item
- d). ISO 8878 contains two notes after item d), the first of which is identical to
- the one note in X.223. ISO has initiated the necessary procedures to remove their
- second note.
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- IV.6 The scope of Recommendation X.223 does not include for provision of the
- OSI Connection-mode Network Service over 1980 X.25 sub-networks. Conversely,
- ISO 8878 provides for this and defines a protocol mechanism in Annex A. Also,
- material related to conformance issues, including those raised by the presence of
- Annex A, is included in Annex B to ISO 8878 and is not included in this
- Recommendation.
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