Formal Specification
Formal ways for describing the syntax of the communications are Abstract Syntax Notation One (a ISO standard) or Augmented Backus-Naur form (a IETF standard).
Finite state machine models and communicating finite-state machines are used to formally describe the possible interactions of the protocol.
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