The protocol defines a mechanism of "compliance" as a "monitoring compliance with the commitments and penalties for non-compliance."

TUP was the first layer 4 protocol defined by the standards bodies and as such did not provision for ISDN services.

These protocols define methods but do not provide concrete implementations.

The Challenge and Cup Awards: The protocols define two award levels of green racing.

This protocol defines the exchange mode and how to establish and end the communication between modules.

The protocol defines a mechanism that can be used by an access router to automatically discover its neighbor with help of mobile devices.

Thus, a protocol must define the syntax, semantics, and synchronization of communication; the specified behavior is typically independent of how it is to be implemented.

We see the same thing happening in protocol software where multiple protocols define the data representations of the data passed between the software modules.

Strict protocols should define who is authorised to gain access to patient identity where the NHS number or other coded identifier is used.

The first protocol signed, the 2002 Machakos Protocol, defined Southern Sudan as the area as of independence in 1956.