RFC 6362 on Multiple Attachments for Electronic Data Interchange

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        RFC 6362

        Title:      Multiple Attachments for Electronic Data 
                    Interchange - Internet Integration (EDIINT) 
        Author:     K. Meadors, Ed.
        Status:     Informational
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       August 2011
        Mailbox:    kyle@drummondgroup.com
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 15137
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-meadors-multiple-attachments-ediint-14.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6362.txt

The Electronic Data Interchange - Internet Integration (EDIINT) AS1,
AS2, and AS3 messages were designed specifically for the transport of
EDI documents.  Since multiple interchanges could be placed within a
single EDI document, there was not a need for sending multiple EDI
documents in a single message.  As adoption of EDIINT grew, other
uses developed aside from single EDI document transport.  Some
transactions required multiple attachments to be interpreted together
and stored in a single message.  This Informational RFC describes how
multiple documents, including non-EDI payloads, can be attached and
transmitted in a single EDIINT transport message.  The attachments
are stored within the MIME multipart/related structure.  A minimal
list of content-types to be supported as attachments is provided.
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.

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RFC 6362 on Multiple Attachments for Electronic Data Interchange - Internet Integration (EDIINT)