Document Transfer and Manipulation (DTAM) standard for telematic applications

DTAM will soon provide a powerful communication platform as a complete OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) application protocol useful in telematic services as well as many other applications. The authors describe the current activity on the DTAM standard in the CCITT, and discuss its applications and relationship with other communication environments. It is noted that DTAM has specified the basic functions of document bulk transfer for telematic applications and will soon provide further functions for document manipulation based on the end-to-end communication model cooperating with CCITT SG VII (DAF) and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG4.<>