As AS2 has grown in acceptance and maturity, its interest and
abilities has spread beyond just secure EDI transfer. A draft for exchanging
certificates over EDIINT has been submitted for review, and members of PIDX/CIDX
are interested in sending multiple documents in an AS2 message through the use
of multipart/related structure.
With this growth of features, what is the best way for
implementations to convey their feature support? AS2-Version header has been
used since compression was introduced, but this is very limited means of
support communication. Within the DGI interoperability test, a vendor suggested
the introduction of a Features header that could convey what the implementation
supported (e.g. Compression, CEM, etc.) to assist trading partners in knowing the
limits of their relationship.
What do the members of this work group consider of this idea
or are their other solutions to this need?
Kyle Meadors
Program Manager
Drummond Group Inc.
615.384.5006
