RE: Is the goal really "EDI" over the internet?

[tjeffers@xxxxxxx]

I like this idea a lot. The effort to make this an open extensible
environment should not be limited to EDI. But when implementing it for
secure EDI, there should be some specific considerations.

Regards,
Todd Jeffers

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>From: 	carl@xxxxxxxxx[SMTP:carl@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, February 12, 1997 6:14 PM
>To: 	ietf-ediint@xxxxxxx
>Subject: 	Is the goal really "EDI" over the internet?
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>The goal is "EDI" over the internet, but it would be stupid to define
>messaging protocols that wouldn't apply to other message content, but with
>similar security/reliability needs.
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>tjeffers@xxxxxxx wrote:
>: ... What you are
>: proposing is really secure internet transmission of data regardless of
>: format (proprietary, EDI, etc..). Should the charter of the working
>: group be changed since EDI is really not a consideration?
>
>Personally, I think splitting the RFC would be appropriate. There should
>be a secure/reliable email transaction  process, independent of the
>content of data exchange, e.g. application/EDIxxxx or whatever.
>
>However, there are a few EDI specific parts, e.g. using RFC1767 to
>wrap X12/EDIFACT data, and the protocol of bundling one interchange
>into one RFC822 message.
>
>Most of the RFC could be independent of terms like "EDI", with a
>paragraph at the end for EDI specific definitions.
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