The purpose of this standard is to provide connection-oriented communication services and protocols consistent with IrDA specifications, using short-range infrared as the physical layer. This standard extends and complements ISO/IEEE 11073-30200, which specifies a cable-connected physical layer. The use of IrDA infrared is appropriate for mobile and portable point-of-care (POC) clinical lab instruments (e.g., glucose meters) and other medical devices that require intermittent point-and-shoot connectivity to a data repository. This standard utilizes the work embodied in the Connectivity Industry Consortium (CIC) and NCCLS POCT1 device and AP interface specification (Appendix A), which is part of an overall effort to standardize communication for POC medical devices using a single transport protocol (IrDA Tiny Transport Protocol [TinyTP]) running over two physical layers: cable-connected and infrared.