Alcance
The scope of ISO 21082:2016 is the specification of the binding in terms of technology mapping to the Space Packet Protocol of:a) MAL message;b) MAL Transport Interface.The MAL Blue Book (reference [2]) specifies the MAL protocol in an abstract way, i.e., without defining the concrete protocol data units. The MAL Space Packet Transport Binding and Binary Encoding specifies:a) a complete and unambiguous mapping of the MAL message to the Space Packet;b) a complete and unambiguous mapping of the MAL transport interface to the Space Packet Protocol interface;c) a complete and unambiguous mapping of the MAL data types to fixed and variable length binary encoding formats.This Recommended Standard does not specify:a) individual implementations or products;b) the implementation of entities or interfaces within real systems.MO services defined in terms of MAL using the Space Packet Transport Binding as defined in this Recommended Standard are fully interoperable.