eMessaging
Transport Communication Guidelines
The use of the internet to exchange business messages and documents has arrived.
The communication guidelines documented have been designed to provide a practical and standard approach to the electronic exchange of data between participants.
The objectives of the GS1 Global Standards Management Process (GSMP) in creating the document are to:
- Provide for the communication of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) data
- Identify alternative communication methods
- Specify the communication guidelines for industry use
- Provide operational guidelines for the use of the EDIINT-AS1 and EDIINT-AS2 standards
Technical Terms
- EDIINT-AS1 and EDIINT-AS2:
are standards that have been developed by the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that enable companies to use the internet to transport securely electronic messages. - EDIINT-AS1: is based upon Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP), an internet standard for transporting email.
- EDIINT- AS2: is based on Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP), the de facto standard for transferring World Wide Web documents.
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EDIINT-AS1 and EDIINT-AS2
This document defines EDIINT-AS1 and EDIINT-AS2 as used by companies participating in eCommerce using the GS1 eMessaging standards. The communications guideline has been designed to provide a practical and standard approach to the electronic exchange of data between participants.
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[format: pdf - date: July 2005 - size: 456kb]
Communication Channel position
The GS1 standards for eMessaging are focused on the data structure and syntax and not on the communication channel used for electronic messaging. Therefore the use of channels like, AS2 protocol, third party service provider, FTP, email etc, remain in the domain for trading partners to agree upon. GS1 Australia however does recommend that trading partners and industry sectors agree on preferred options for their community as this would minimise the number of different connections each partner needs to provide support for, thus not inhibiting the wide adoption of eMessaging using GS1 standards.
