Association Control Service Element

association control service element
(acse) 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.

<networking> (ACSE) 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.
Documents: ITU Rec. X.227 (ISO 8650), X.217 (ISO 8649)
(1997-12-07)