ISO/IEC 22534:2005
Information technology -- Telecommunications and information exchange between systems -- Application session services
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Application protocols, such as ECMA-323, require that an application session is established before application messages are exchanged. ECMA-269 specifies several mechanisms for establishing an application context. One possible mechanism is ACSE (ISO/IEC 8649) - but since ASCE uses ASN.1 encoding for its services, it is not desirable for use with XML based protocols such as ECMA-323.
ISO/IEC 22534:2005 provides an XML-based alternative for establishing application sessions.