Provided are a system and method for interworking Service Capability
Features (SCFs) and protocols in an open service gateway. The system
includes service capability features that generate and process various
protocol messages, and a protocol stack that enables an interwork with a
communications network. The protocol stack includes: one or more units
that maintain various protocols, a unit that performs data connection and
transmits and processes messages, and a unit that manages the various
protocols. In the protocol stack, protocol identifiers that differentiate
the protocols from one another, and message identifiers that
differentiate service capability features from one another are stored in
the unit that manages the various protocols.