Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Abbreviated terms
5 Overview
6 Guidelines on strategy
7 Guidelines on document organization
8 Guidelines on terminology
9 Guidelines on use of formal specification languages
10 Guidelines on interoperability
11 Guidelines on concurrency issues
12 Guidelines on the selection and specification of datatypes
13 Guidelines on specification of procedure calls
14 Guidelines on specification of fault handling
15 Guidelines on options and implementation dependence
16 Guidelines on conformity requirements
17 Guidelines on specifying a language binding to a
   language-independent interface specification
18 Guidelines on revisions
Annex A (informative) - Brief guide to language-independent
        standards
Annex B (informative) - Glossary of language-independent
        terms
Bibliography

Abstract

Gives guidelines to those concerned with developing specifications of information technology services and their interfaces intended for use by clients of the services, in particular by external applications that do not necessarily all share the environment and assumptions of one particular programming language.

General Product Information

Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	International Organization for Standardization
Pages
ISBN
Committee	JTC 1