Specifies: (a) procedures for the transfer of data and control information from one presentation-entity to a peer presentation-entity; (b) the means of selecting, by means of functional units, the procedures to be used by the presentation-entities; (c) the structure and encoding of the presentation-protocol-data-units used for the transfer of data and control information. Also specifies conformance criteria for systems implementing these procedures. It does not contain tests which can be used to demonstrate this conformance.

ISO/IEC 8823-1 : 1994(R2000) - Identical