iWay Intelligent Adapter for EDIINT

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Security, Reliability, and Nonrepudiation Without a VAN

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technologies were among the earliest used to promote business-to-business information exchange. Messages of a specific format were emitted to Value-Added Networks, or VANs, which would be responsible for ensuring that they were securely transmitted to the recipient once and only once. The VAN was also responsible for nonrepudiation - ensuring that the sender couldn't claim that someone else had sent the message.

While this system has worked reliably for decades and continues to be used by large companies today, it has its drawbacks. Chief among them is the high cost of the VAN, which may charge users setup fees, per-transaction fees, and correction fees when an incorrectly formatted message is sent.

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) created the Electronic Data Interchange-Internet Integration (EDIINT) working group to promote the use of the Internet for secure, reliable, and nonrepudiable transactions.

The EDIINT working group developed Applicability Statements 1, 2, and 3 (AS1, AS2, and AS3) to use SMTP e-mail, HTTP, and FTP, respectively, to achieve this goal. AS1, AS2, and AS3 all use encryption and digital signatures to ensure secure transmissions and appropriate handshaking to ensure reliability and nonrepudiation.

Organizations that move to AS1, AS2, and AS3 can achieve dramatic total cost of ownership (TCO) reductions over traditional VANs.

eBusinessReady has performed interoperability testing on iWay's AS1, AS2, and AS3 adapters.