<P> OASIS AMQP was approved for release as an ISO and IEC International Standard in April 2014 . AMQP 1.0 was balloted through the Joint Technical Committee on Information Technology (JTC1) of the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The approved OASIS AMQP submission has been given the designation, ISO / IEC 19464 . </P> <P> Previous versions of AMQP were 0 - 8, published in June 2006, 0 - 9, published in December 2006, 0 - 10 published in February 2008 and 0 - 9 - 1, published in November 2008 . These earlier releases are significantly different from the 1.0 specification . </P> <P> Whilst AMQP originated in the financial services industry, it has general applicability to a broad range of middleware problems . </P> <P> AMQP defines a self - describing encoding scheme allowing interoperable representation of a wide range of commonly used types . It also allows typed data to be annotated with additional meaning, for example a particular string value might be annotated so that it could be understood as a URL . Likewise a map value containing key - value pairs for' name',' address' etc., might be annotated as being a representation of a' customer' type . </P>

In amqp link initiation in order to send and receive messages is done by which frame type