FTAM, an ISO 8571 standard, is an OSI Application layer protocol for File Transfer Access and Management. FTAM attempted to combine into a single protocol both file transfer, similar in concept to the Internet FTP, as well as remote access to open files, similar to NFS. RFC 1415 provides an FTP-FTAM gateway specification. FTAM has not seen wide adoption on the Internet, and attempts to define an Internet-scale file transfer protocol have instead focussed on Server message block, NFS or Andrew file system as models.
The FTAM Asn1API is compliant with :