Conversion Between the TCP and ISO Transport Protocols as a Method of Achieving Interoperability Between Data Communications Systems

Abstract

A solution to the lack of interoperability between the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) data communications standards and the NATO standards based on the International Organization for Standardization concept for open systems interconnection is presented. The solution is based on conversion between a common subset of the US DoD Transmission Control Protocol and the ISO Class 4 Transport Protocol at the Transport layer, which is the first layer offering any end-to-end service.