Editing FTAM

{{Short description|File access protocol}}
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'''FTAM''', [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]] standard 8571, is the [[Open Systems Interconnection|OSI]] [[application layer]] 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 [[File transfer protocol|FTP]], as well as remote access to open files, similar to [[Network File System (protocol)|NFS]]. However, like the other [[OSI protocols]], FTAM has not been widely adopted,<ref>[http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/osereg/gosip/conform/layer7/app/fil/ftam/acse/product.htm FTAM support claimed by IBM, Novell, Sun, Unisys etc] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302031616/http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/osereg/gosip/conform/layer7/app/fil/ftam/acse/product.htm |date=2 March 2013 }}, [[Joint Interoperability Test Command]]</ref> 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'' ([[Electronic Data Interchange|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]], [[Network File System (protocol)|NFS]] or [[Andrew File System]] as models.

==ISO 8571 parts==
ISO 8571, ''Information processing systems &mdash; Open Systems Interconnection &mdash; File Transfer, Access and Management'', is split into five parts:

* ISO 8571-1:1988 ''Part 1: General introduction''<ref>[https://www.iso.org/standard/15836.html ISO 8571-1:1988]</ref>
* ISO 8571-2:1988 ''Part 2: Virtual Filestore Definition''<ref>[https://www.iso.org/standard/15841.html ISO 8571-2:1988]</ref>
* ISO 8571-3:1988 ''Part 3: File Service Definition''<ref>[https://www.iso.org/standard/15846.html ISO 8571-3:1988]</ref>
* ISO 8571-4:1988 ''Part 4: File Protocol Specification''<ref>[https://www.iso.org/standard/15851.html ISO 8571-4:1988]</ref>
* ISO/IEC 8571-5:1990 ''Part 5: Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement Proforma''<ref>[https://www.iso.org/standard/15856.html ISO/IEC 8571-5:1990]</ref>

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