CEF eDelivery SMP 3.0 FR Now Live
European Commission, 2017
The European Commission is happy to announce the final release of the sample implementation of the Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) 3.0 of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eDelivery building block.
CEF eDelivery helps users to exchange electronic data and documents with one another in a reliable and trusted way.
CEF eDelivery works as a collection of distributed nodes that are conformant to the same technical rules, and therefore capable of interacting with each other. The CEF eDelivery network is based on a distributed model where every participant becomes a node using standard transport protocols and security policies.
The CEF eDelivery Service Metadata Publisher (SMP) enables the participants of an eDelivery Messaging Infrastructure to dynamically discover each other's capabilities (Legal, Organisational, and Technical). For this to happen, each participant must publish its capabilities and settings in a SMP. SMPs hold key information about the participants of large eDelivery Messaging Infrastructures, for example:
- business processes the participant supports
- the security setup (public key certificate)
- the transport protocol (e.g. AS2 or AS4)
- the location of the receiver's access point
SMP 3.0 is conformant with the e-SENS SMP profile based on the OASIS Service Metadata Publishing (BDX SMP) specifications.
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