# ISO/IEC 9594-4:2008 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards For ISO/IEC 9594-4:2008, item title is Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — The Directory: Procedures for distributed operation — Part 4:; status code is 9599; successor is ISO/IEC 9594-4:2014; withdrawn / published date is 2008-12-15, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05. - **Identifier:** ISO/IEC 9594-4:2008 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Item title:** Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — The Directory: Procedures for distributed operation — Part 4: _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Successor:** ISO/IEC 9594-4:2014 - **Withdrawn / published date:** 2008-12-15 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ ## What the source says > 53368,IS,,ISO/IEC 9594-4:2008,Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — The Directory: Procedures for distributed operation — Part 4:,Technologies de l'information — Interconnexion de systèmes ouverts (OSI) — L'annuaire: Procédures pour le fonctionnement réparti — Partie 4:,2008-12-15,6,['35.100.70'],ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6,9599,"[43794,52102,56604]",[64848],['en'],113,"

ISO/IEC 9594-4:2008 specifies the behaviour of DSAs taking part in the distributed Directory application. The allowed behaviour has been designed so as to ensure a consistent service given a wide distribution of the DIB across many DSAs.

The Directory is not intended to be a general purpose database system, ## 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 Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).