What are the responsibilities of the Presentation layer of the OSI model?

What will be an ideal response?


The Presentation layer prepares the data from the Application layer for transmission over the network. It also reformats data received from the lower layers in the protocol stack for the Application layer. Presentation layer components include file extensions and coding schemes such as BMP, WAV, JPEG, MIDI, HTML, EBCDIC, and ASCII.

The Presentation layer has the following responsibilities:
• Data translation
• Data formatting
• Data syntax restructuring
• Data encryption
• Data compression

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