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

Terry,

regarding the following:
> Many vendors are already supplying that capability.  Several vendors are
> AS1 and AS2 compliant and create a transport independent 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.

I don't mean to nit-pick but I don't believe this is accurate. Didn't the
AS2 testers discover a problem with the To and From headers that are used in
AS1, that resulted in a "packaging change" to use AS2-To and AS2-From within
AS2. IMO, this means that AS1 and AS2 use DIFFERENT packaging, not hugely
different, but different. Would you agree?


Dick Brooks
Group 8760
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Birmingham, AL 35203
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Harding [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 5:31 PM
> To: Rishel,Wes; 'Gunther Schadow'
> Cc: Dick Brooks; Rik Drummond; Kepa Zubeldia; CLEM; Gary Crough; Beth
> Morrow; David@Drummondgroup. Com; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: 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