page_title: Application Portability Profile
hierarchical_section_title: Application Portability Profile
caption_attribution_description: English: Application Portability Profile Service Areas and the Open-System Environment
context_page_description: The Application Portability Profile is a 1990s framework for Open-System Environment designed by the NIST for use by the U.S. Government. It contains a selected suite of specifications that defines the interfaces, services, protocols, and data formats for a particular class or domain of applications.
  The Application Portability Profile offers structure to "integrate US federal, national and international, and other specifications to provide the functionality necessary to accommodate the broad range of US federal information technology requirements."
context_section_description: The Application Portability Profile (APP) is a 1990s framework for Open-System Environment designed by the NIST for use by the U.S. Government. It contains a selected suite of specifications that defines the interfaces, services, protocols, and data formats for a particular class or domain of applications.
  The Application Portability Profile offers structure to "integrate US federal, national and international, and other specifications to provide the functionality necessary to accommodate the broad range of US federal information technology requirements."
caption: Application Portability Profile (APP) Service Areas and the Open-system environment reference model (OSE-RM).
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