The ACSE A-P-ABORT service shall be used by the UL service-provider to signal the abnormal release of the association due to problems in services at the Presentation Layer and below. This occurrence indicates the possible loss of information in transit. A-P-ABORT is a provider-initiated service.
Figure 7-4 illustrates aborting an established association by an UL service-provider.
Table 7-6 lists the parameter that shall be required for the A-P-ABORT service.
The provider reason parameter shall be used to convey one of the following reasons:
Note
In addition to these reasons, a locally defined list of reasons may be used to reflect errors that caused the abort and originated in the Session, Transport, Network, Data Link, and Physical layers. The generation and handling of such errors is internal to an implementation and, therefore, is outside the scope of this communications Standard.