Association Control Service Element

Association Control Service Element (ACSE) is the OSI method for establishing a call between two application programs. ACSE checks the identities and contexts of the application entities, and could apply an authentication security check.

References

• ITU Rec. X.227 (ISO 8650), X.217 (ISO 8649)

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