This Part of ISO/IEC 10740 defines the elements used in the specification of the Referenced Data Transfer within distributed-office-applications. Its content is grouped into two major areas:
An introductory part in which references, definitions and abbreviations are collected together.
A definition of the RDT abstract service.
For an explanation of the Distinguished Object Refrence (DOR), the Referenced Object Access (ROA) functional model, and the requirements on an ROA type protocol refer to ISO/IEC 10031-2.