FTAM,

ISO The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ; ; ) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Me ...

standard 8571, is the OSI

application layer An application layer is an abstraction layer that specifies the shared communication protocols and interface methods used by hosts in a communications network. An ''application layer'' abstraction is specified in both the Internet Protocol Su ...

protocol for file transfer, access and management. The goal of FTAM is to combine into a single protocol both file transfer, similar in concept to the Internet

FTP The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network. FTP is built on a client–server model architecture using separate control and dat ...

, as well as remote access to open files, similar to NFS. However, like the other

OSI protocols The Open Systems Interconnection protocols are a family of information exchange standards developed jointly by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO and the ITU-T. The standardization process began in 1977. While the seven-la ...

, FTAM has not been widely adopted, and the TCP/IP based Internet has become the dominant global network. The FTAM protocol was used in the German banking sector to transfer clearing information. The Banking Communication Standard (BCS) over FTAM access (short BCS-FTAM) was standardized in the ''DFÜ-Abkommen'' ( EDI-agreement) enacted in Germany on 15 March 1995. The BCS-FTAM transmission protocol was supposed to be replaced by the Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard (EBICS) in 2010. The obligatory support for BCS over FTAM was ceased in December 2010. RFC 1415 provides an FTP-FTAM gateway specification but attempts to define an Internet-scale file transfer protocol have instead focused on

Server message block Server Message Block (SMB) is a communication protocol used to share files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. On Microsoft Windows, the SMB implementation consists of two vaguely named Windows ...

, NFS or

Andrew File System The Andrew File System (AFS) is a distributed file system which uses a set of trusted servers to present a homogeneous, location-transparent file name space to all the client workstations. It was developed by Carnegie Mellon University as part of ...

as models.

ISO 8571 parts

ISO 8571, ''Information processing systems — Open Systems Interconnection — File Transfer, Access and Management'', is split into five parts: * ISO 8571-1:1988 ''Part 1: General introduction'' * ISO 8571-2:1988 ''Part 2: Virtual Filestore Definition'' * ISO 8571-3:1988 ''Part 3: File Service Definition'' * ISO 8571-4:1988 ''Part 4: File Protocol Specification'' * ISO/IEC 8571-5:1990 ''Part 5: Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement Proforma''ISO/IEC 8571-5:1990
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References

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