Re: HL7 Standards Process (was RE: EDIINT and HIPAA)

> Whatever happens to electronic signatures I would be delighted if AS2
> somehow got launched for the simple purpose of providing authentic,
> encrypted B2B messages built on top of ubiquitous Internet protocols. I
> would like to offer my enthusiastic support to enabling that by whatever
> means works best. If that means that HL7 adopts it, so be it. (I just hope
> we don't adapt it.)
Many vendors are already supplying that capability.  Several vendors are
AS1 and AS2 compliant and create a transport independant signed, secured
message which is transferred using SMTP or HTTP.
The packaging remains the same for either transport and returned MDNs
also follow the same format, transport independant.

Terry Harding
Cyclone Commerce