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This Recommended Standard defines the Monitored Data service in terms of:a) the CSTS procedures that constitute the service;b) the extensions and refinements of the behavior of those CSTS procedures necessary to provide the transfer service;c) the extensions and refinements of standard CSTS operations associated with each of the procedures;d) the relationships among the procedures that constitute the service.It does not specify:a) individual implementations or products;b) the implementation of entities or interfaces within real systems;c) the methods or technologies required to measure the values of monitored parameters and to detect the occurrence of events of interest;d) the methods or technologies required for communication;e) the management activities necessary to schedule, configure, and control the MD-CSTS;f) the specific parameters that are to be reported and events that are to be notified by the MD-CSTS.