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MIME-based Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange over the Internet

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Network Working Group                                         T. Harding
Request for Comments: 3335                              Cyclone Commerce
Category: Standards Track                                    R. Drummond
                                                          Drummond Group
                                                                 C. Shih
                                                           Gartner Group
                                                          September 2002


                     MIME-based Secure Peer-to-Peer
              Business Data Interchange over the Internet

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2002).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes how to exchange structured business data
   securely using SMTP transport for Electronic Data Interchange, (EDI -
   either the American Standards Committee X12 or UN/EDIFACT, Electronic
   Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport), XML or
   other data used for business to business data interchange.  The data
   is packaged using standard MIME content-types.  Authentication and
   privacy are obtained by using Cryptographic Message Syntax (S/MIME)
   or OpenPGP security body parts.  Authenticated acknowledgements make
   use of multipart/signed replies to the original SMTP message.
















Harding, et. al.            Standards Track
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