The Implementation Version Name Sub-Item shall be made of a sequence of mandatory fixed length fields followed by a variable field. Only one Implementation Version Name Sub-Item shall be present in the User Data Item of the A-ASSOCIATE-RQ. Table D.3-3 shows the sequence of the mandatory fields.
Table D.3-3. Implementation Version Name Sub-Item Fields (A-ASSOCIATE-RQ)
|
Item Bytes |
Field Name |
Description of Field |
|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Item-type |
55H |
|
2 |
Reserved |
This reserved field shall be sent with a value 00H but not tested to this value when received. |
|
3 - 4 |
Item-length |
This Item-length shall be the number of bytes from the first byte of the following field to the last byte of the Implementation-version-name field. It shall be encoded as an unsigned binary number. |
|
5 - xxx |
Implementation-version-name |
This variable field shall contain the Implementation-version-name of the Association-requester as defined in Section D.3.3.2. It shall be encoded as a string of 1 to 16 ISO 646:1990 (basic G0 set) characters. |