Certain types of LDAP applications can benefit from the ability to specify the beginning and end of a related group of operations. For example, the LDUP multimaster update protocol [ARCHITECTURE] requires that two servers agree to begin a session to transfer pending replication updates. This document provides a framework for constructing protocols that feature a framed set of related operations. It defines a pair of LDAPv3 extended operations that provide begin-end framing, and a pair of extended operations used to respond the begin-end framing operations. The nature of the actual LDAP operations carried inside these framing operations is not specified in this document. All protocol elements described here are LDAP Version 3 extended operations. LDAP Version 3 is described in RFC 2251 [LDAPv3]. Certain terms used in this document are defined in the document 'LDAP Replication Architecture' [ARCHITECTURE].