ISO International Standard

ISO 10537:2016 defines the Encapsulation Service in terms of:

a) the service primitives provided to the users of this service;

b) the protocol data units employed by the service provider; and

c) the procedures performed by the service provider.

It does not specify:

a) individual implementations or products;

b) the implementation of service interfaces within real systems;

c) the methods or technologies required to perform the procedures; or

d) the management activities required to configure and control the service.