Re: Message From KO/Office

[Brad <incisive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

  I've been following your discussion the last few days.  Quite 
interesting.  I am writing a software program that fits well into the EDI 
realm.  However, I don't realy know where to start.  What is the best way 
to begin learning about EDI implementation?

  Actually the idea of sending EDI packets over the internet hadn't 
occured to me but from what I've seen written it is quite feasible.

Thanks

Brad Seavers

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On Tue, 28 May 1996 Joanne.Ghahremani@gsa.gov wrote:

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> Author:  mark.hughes@ccamatil.com at INTERNET 
> Date:    5/23/96 5:46 PM
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> Peter,
> E-mail and EDI only differ in that the content of one is 
> person-to-person unstructured and the content of the other is 
> application-to-application structured.  But as far as addressing and 
> comms and encryption goes, they're the same beast.
> Requirements for security/encryption for person-to-person are the 
> same as application-to-application from a business point of view.  I 
> need privacy, authentication, non-repudiation, integrity, etc for 
> both types of communication.
> So my preferred solution is to take an outgoing message from my EDI 
> Translation application, give it to my e-mail application which then 
> applies for that Trading Partner the same encryption as my 
> person-to-person emails to a human at that Trading Partner, and it 
> then sends the EDI message as a standard email.
> When I receive a message from my Trading Partner (EDI or E-mail) my 
> e-mail application decrypts them using the same algorithm.  The 
> stuff that is addressed to mark.hughes@ccamatil.com is read by me. 
> The stuff that is addressed to edi@ccamatil.com is automatically 
> re-directed to my translator and handled there.  Doesn't seem too 
> complex a concept to me.
> EDI and e-mail are both the same.  The fact that trad-EDI is all 
> sent using proprietary addressing over proprietary VANs is part of 
> the problem, Peter, not part of the solution.
> Regards, Mark
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