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AS/NZS 4033.2:1999ISO/IEC 10021-2:1996ISO/IEC 10021-2:1996/Cor.1:1998

Australian/New Zealand Standard

Information technologyTextcommunicationMessage-oriented textinterchange systems

Part 2: Overall architecture


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AS/NZS 4033.2:1999

This Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard was prepared by Joint Technical CommitteeIT/1, Information SystemsInterconnection. It was approved on behalf of the Council ofStandards Australia on 14 July 1999 and on behalf of the Council of StandardsNew Zealand on 28 June 1999. It was published on 5 August 1999.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/1:

Australian Association of Chief Information OfficersAustralian Association of Permanent Building SocietiesAustralian Bankers AssociationAustralian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Chamber of Commerce and IndustryAustralian Communications Industry ForumAustralian Computer SocietyAustralian Information Industry AssociationAustralian Telecommunications Users GroupAustralian Vice-Chancellors CommitteeCSIRO Mathematical and Information SciencesDepartment of Communications and the ArtsDepartment of Industry Science and Tourism (Commonwealth)Electrical Compliance Testing AssociationTelecom New ZealandTelstra Corporation

Review of Standards. To keep abreast of progress in industry, Joint Australian/New Zealand Standards are subject to periodic review and are kept up to date by the issueof amendments or new editions as necessary. It is important therefore that Standards usersensure that they are in possession of the latest edition, and any amendments thereto.

Full details of all Joint Standards and related publications will be found in the Standards

Australia and Standards New Zealand Catalogue of Publications; this information issupplemented each month by the magazines The Australian Standard and StandardsNew Zealand, which subscribing members receive, and which give details of newpublications, new editions and amendments, and of withdrawn Standards.

Suggestions for improvements to Joint Standards, addressed to the head office of eitherStandards Australia or Standards New Zealand, are welcomed. Notification of anyinaccuracy or ambiguity found in a Joint Australian/New Zealand Standard should bemade without delay in order that the matter may be investigated and appropriate actiontaken.

This Standard was issued in draft form for comment as DR 99174.


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AS/NZS 4033.2:1999

Australian/New Zealand Standard

Information technologyTextcommunicationMessage-oriented textinterchange systems

Part 2: Overall architecture

Originated in Australia as AS 4033.21992.

Jointly revised and designated AS/NZS 4033.2:1999.

Published jointly by:

Standards Australia

1 The Crescent,

Homebush NSW 2140 AustraliaStandards New Zealand

Level 10, Radio New Zealand House,

155 The Terrace,

Wellington 6001 New ZealandISBN 0 7337 2875 8


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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Joint Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand

Committee IT/1, Information SystemsInterconnection, to supersede AS 4033.21992.

This Standard is identical with and has been reproduced from ISO/IEC 10021-2:1996,Information technologyMessage Handling Systems (MHS): Overall architecture and its

Technical Corrigendum 1: 1998.

The objective of this Standard is to provide network designers with a definition of the

overall architecture of a message handling system including abstract models, various

configurations and naming and addressing issues.

As this Standard is reproduced from an International Standard, the following applies:

(a) Its number does not appear on each page of text and its identity is shown only on thecover and title page.

(b) In the source text this Recommendation/International Standard should read this

Australian/New Zealand Standard.(c) A full point should be substituted for a comma when referring to a decimal marker.

Copyright STANDARDS AUSTRALIA/STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND

Users of Standards are reminded that copyright subsists in all Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand publications andsoftware. Except where the Copyright Act allows and except where provided for below no publications or software produced byStandards Australia or Standards New Zealand may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system in any form or transmitted by anymeans without prior permission in writing from Standards Australia or Standards New Zealand. Permission may be conditional onan appropriate royalty payment. Australian requests for permission and information on commercial software royalties should bedirected to the head office of Standards Australia. New Zealand requests should be directed to Standards New Zealand.

Up to 10 percent of the technical content pages of a Standard may be copied for use exclusively in-house by purchasers ofthe Standard without payment of a royalty or advice to Standards Australia or Standards New Zealand.

Inclusion of copyright material in computer software programs is also permitted without royalty payment provided suchprograms are used exclusively in-house by the creators of the programs.

Care should be taken to ensure that material used is from the current edition of the Standard and that it is updated whenever theStandard is amended or revised. The number and date of the Standard should therefore be clearly identified.

The use of material in print form or in computer software programs to be used commercially, with or without payment, or incommercial contracts is subject to the payment of a royalty. This policy may be varied by Standards Australia or Standards NewZealand at any time.


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