This clause details the standards-based application transport protocol and other lower layer requirements required for interoperability of IEEE 2030.5 devices.
The application support layer provides the following services:
XML (W3C XML) and/or EXI (W3C EXI) encoding as the data payload of the RESTful operations
Transport authentication and encryption using HTTP over TLS (IETF RFC 2818 and IETF RFC 5246)