ISO/IEC 4396-1:2023

Telecommunications and information exchange between systems - Recursive inter-network architecture - Part 1: Reference model

This document provides the reference model for the Recursive Inter-Network Architecture (RINA). It describes:

— the basic concepts of distributed systems and distributed applications;

— distributed management systems (DMSs);

— the fundamental structure of distributed Inter-Process Communications;

— the Distributed Inter-Process Facility (DIF) operations.