19 Foundation Profiles
The purpose of a profile is to provide a clear description of how a full specification of a standard system should be used to implement a given end-user function. If everyone deploys a particular communications standard in the same way, then each product so created should be able to interoperate. This notion of profiles originated from the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO/IEC TR10000).
ISO defines the notion of a profile in a more rigorous way as follows:
- Implementation options are reduced so that applications share the same features.
- Parameters are defined so that applications operate in similar ways.
- Standard mechanisms for combining different standards are defined.
- User interface guidelines are defined. ...
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