Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Network Data Representation (NDR) is an implementation of the presentation layer in the OSI model. The Presentation Layer is Layer 6 of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking. The Presentation Layer is responsible for the delivery and formatting of information to the application layer for further processing or display. It relieves the application layer of concern regarding syntactical differences in data representation within the end-user systems. Note: An example of a presentation service would be the conversion of an EBCDIC-coded text file to an ASCII-coded file. The Presentation Layer is the lowest layer at which application programmers consider data structure and presentation, instead of simply sending data in form of datagrams or packets between hosts. This layer deals with issues of string representation - whether they use the Pascal method (an integer length field followed by the specified amount of bytes) or the C/C++ method (null-terminated strings, i.e. "thisisastring¿"). The idea is that the application layer should be able to point at the data to be moved, and the Presentation Layer will deal with the rest.