5/9/2000 E Kickoff Presented by: Gary M. Morin BCE Emergis & Co-Chair Message Routing WG

What is E A way to reliably and securely send documents from one trading partner to another over the ANX® or the Internet. A major revision of the AIAG’s Guideline for Electronic Commerce Routing Over TCP/IP Networks (Document number E-5)

The E-5 Story In 1996, when we began talking seriously about ANX® we realized that we needed a common way to send EDI and other EC documents across this or other TCP/IP based networks. We investigated numerous alternatives both open and proprietary. Settled on a variant of the Gas Industry Standard based on HTTP, the Web protocol.

E-5 Requirements Reliable Secure Scaleable –OEM’s at 1 billion transactions/yr –Tier 1’s at 100,000 transactions/yr –Tier N at 12 transactions/yr Open

Reliable The fastest way to get your company in trouble with its customers is to drop some EDI transactions! The TP’s need to know immediately if the transaction failed.

Secure We have the IPSec security for ANX® based transactions. We needed a secure method for Public network (Internet) transactions. –E-5 and E work with SSL

Scaleable We have some of the biggest and the smallest companies in the world, (and everything in between) that need to interoperate. Conversion is going to be a real pain. We need to make it as easy as possible!

Open Can’t be tied to any particular vendor’s approach, there are just to many trading partners. Must be deployable on any platform. Standard “Off the shelf” parts.

GISB Standard Based on HTTP, the protocol used for the World Wide Web. Sends back immediate delivery status. Uses MIME to wrap or “envelope” the data with routing information. Uses RFC 1867 “Form data” to upload. Uses PGP “Pretty Good Privacy” to encrypt documents. Approximately 500 organizations using today.

AIAG E-5 GISB minus the PGP. Allows for SSL security on the Internet. Demonstrated at AutoTech Approved by AIAG BOD in March First commercial products available AutoTech Installed base today about Mostly inside the Harbinger network.

E-5 Behaviors Deliver –Sends a document to a TP Obtain –Picks up a document from a TP Retrieve –Picks up a document (requeue) List –Lists the contents of a mailbox Exit

E-5 Overview Server Client EDI App.

PushMe - PullYou If both parties have E-5 servers and automated clients then you never need to go to an EDI mail box ever again! Obtain and Retrieve functions exist for small mail box applications. We continue to map to the AIAG M-3 and M-5 Business Processes.

Why E There is ‘Open’ and there is “Open.” –Forced all “forms” to be the same Why make silicon life forms act like carbon life forms?

Changes in E Separate Silicon (machine) and Carbon (human) interfaces. (Faster) Single post to logon and to transfer data in Silicon. (Faster) Basic Authentication security (Standards) XML based routing elements (Standards) TP Callable API (Flexibility, Implementation)

Separate Interfaces Machines don’t need all of the interactive help so why make them go through the extra steps? You must have a human interface but we don’t specify what it looks like. No specific human interface is specified so “go knock yourself out”.

Single logon/post Sends the logon and the data in one package. Each E-5 behavior has it’s own URL Allows “stateless” operation so it is easy to implement a High Availability solution.

Basic Authentication Standards based HTTP logon. Supported by all of the big Web servers. We can move to a PKI when one is available and eliminate usernames and passwords.

XML based Routing Elements Routing data is in XML format. Easier to parse out the Information. Easy to move to the next step, XML based EDI.

TP Callable API “Have my server call your server.” Finally, a first cut at a “callable” implementation guide. Results sent back are in XML format Built in loop back to validate the setup. A logical next step, the call to a directory service (LDAP).

E-5 Stack Example MIME Boundary End EDI/Data MIME Boundary XML (routing info) MIME Boundary HTTP Headers Follows RFC 1867 Form-based File Upload Deliver Request

XML DTD’s for all XML documents are included in the specification. Adds tremendous flexibility in specifying EC documents and how they are to be routed. Provides us with some protocol independence. (SMTP, FTP, OFTP could now be used but there is no specification yet)

Example XML Release 05/09/2000 application/EDI-X EDIGEN 12345

EDI/Data Package This can be literally any kind of electronic package not just EDI. –Much of the testing was done with MP3 music files. We support any MIME type so files can be “zipped” to reduce their size.

Other Stuff Standardized status messages. Date and Time specifications. Information about Date and Time Services. Sample Directory Schema. –Lets you know who and where to call. Silicon interface has a “Human” form used for testing purposes.

Current Status E was approved by the AIAG Board of Directory in March AIAG Document publication is imminent. Two organizations Michigan Blue Cross/ Blue Shield and Beaumont Hospital have agreed to pilot their X insurance verification process on V2000 starting this May over the ANX®

The Future Presented to ebXML for consideration as the standard transport. BCBS – Beaumont Testing in May 2000

Questions Why E-5 document