Document Action: 'FTP Transport for Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange over the Internet' to Informational RFC

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'FTP Transport for Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange over the 
   Internet '
   <draft-ietf-ediint-as3-04.txt> as an Informational RFC

This document is the product of the Electronic Data Interchange-Internet 
Integration Working Group. 

The IESG contact persons are Scott Hollenbeck and Ted Hardie.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ediint-as3-04.txt

Technical Summary

This Applicability Statement (AS) describes how to exchange structured
business data securely using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for XML,
Binary, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI - ANSI X12 or UN/EDIFACT), or
other data used for business-to-business data interchange for which
MIME packaging can be accomplished using standard MIME content-types.
Authentication and data confidentiality are obtained by using
Cryptographic Message Syntax (S/MIME) security body parts.
Authenticated acknowledgements employ multipart/signed replies to the
original message.

Working Group Summary

This document was once considered a candidate for Proposed Standard
status.  It is instead being evaluated for publication as an