# ISO/IEC 10021-2:1996 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards

For ISO/IEC 10021-2:1996, item title is Information technology — Message Handling Systems (MHS): Overall architecture; status code is 9599; successor is ISO/IEC 10021-2:2003; withdrawn / published date is 1996-12-30, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05.

- **Identifier:** ISO/IEC 10021-2:1996 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Item title:** Information technology — Message Handling Systems (MHS): Overall architecture _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Successor:** ISO/IEC 10021-2:2003
- **Withdrawn / published date:** 1996-12-30 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 28237,IS,,ISO/IEC 10021-2:1996,Information technology — Message Handling Systems (MHS): Overall architecture,Technologies de l'information — Systèmes de messagerie (MHS): Architecture globale,1996-12-30,2,['35.240.20'],ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6,9599,"[24000,17950,17951,24016,17948,21223,22946,17952,17949,20428]",[33058],"['en','fr']",87,"<p>Defines the overall architecture of Message Handling Systems (MHS) and serves as a technical introduction to it. Gives a general overview, abstract models of message handling, how one can configure the MHS and how this can be realized by means of OSI.</p>"

## Source

- https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv

Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01.
Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).