ISO/IEC 14360:1996

Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) abstract data manipulation — Application Program Interface (API) (Language independent)

Defines a standard interface supporting the manipulation of complex arguments and parameters used by X.400 and Directory Services APIs. The interface supports manipulation of abstract data defined in ASN.1 and is for use in conjunction with, but is otherwise independent of, the X.400 and Directory services APIs.