FTAM FTAM , ISO standard 8571 , is an OSI Application layer protocol for File Transfer Access and Management . FTAM attempted to combine into a single protocol both file transfer , similar in concept to the Internet FTP , as well as remote access to open files , similar to NFS . RFC 1415 provides an FTP-FTAM gateway specification . FTAM has not seen wide adoption on the Internet , and attempts to define an Internet-scale file transfer protocol have instead focussed on Server message block , NFS or Andrew file system as models . Categories : ISO standards | Computer file systems | ITU-T recommendations | OSI protocols | Network file transfer protocols In other languages : Deutsch | Español 