(EDI) A standard for integrating data with various native formats into a message, which has been defined by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT) standards body, now called the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and is implemented in the X.435 message-handling standard.
A change in an object's state that can generate a notification, such as a critical error occurring or the object being modified.
event mask
A bitmask that is used to indicate one or more types of event notifications. Advise sink objects register for specific notifications using the event mask. See also advise sink, notification.