Dave,
The
Link I gave you was to the TCIF home page. Interactive Agent was created by a
subcommittee of the TCIF known as Electronic Communications Implementattion
Committee (ECIC). Interactive Agent was developed by the Interactive Agent Data
Exchange Subcommittee of ECIC. The URL for the
Documents produced by this subcommittee is:
Select: Draft Interactive Agent specification Version 2
& download the specification.
If you
are unfamiliar with SSL & Asn.1 Encoding then the spec will not read
easily. But, our development team built one for the NT environment
in less than 3 months. There are several UNIX implementations
currently being used. Ours is not available for General Release yet. We
are only releasing it to
specific customers.
If you
have an interest in our product let me know and I'll forward your request to our
Product Department.
-Jim
Bertsch
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:01 PM
To: James Bertsch
Subject: Where is IATP info?
James,From: Dave Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:01 PM
To: James Bertsch
Subject: Where is IATP info?
This sounds quite interesting, but where exactly is the information about IATP? The link you provided doesn't contain the string 'IATP', and I wasn't able to spot it elsewhere. Please clarify!
Dave
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 09:44:44 -0600
From: James Bertsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP vs. Vans
We currently use VANS to transmit EDI data. We find that it guarantees privacy and is efficient. However are moving away from Vans because they are expensive. We are going to a recently developed protocol, Interactive Agent Transfer Protocol,(IATP). FTP has several limitations. The major limitation with FTP is trust.
Can you trust that the person on the other end of the transaction is who he says he is?
Can you trust that the data came across unaltered?
Can you trust that the data transmission was private? (i.e. unavailable to anyone but the
party it was intended for)Interactive Agent (IATP) is a standard protocol that addresses all the trust isssues.
It uses SSL and Asn.1 encoding to resolve the trust issues. If you want an inexpensive, reliable, fast, trustworthy transaction then IATP is the way to go.
for more information about what Interactive Agent is checkout the Telecommunications
Industry Forum (TCIF) website: http://www.atis.org/atis/tcif
