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Deadline extended for eDelivery AS4 and SMP 2.0 Profiles Consultations

The eDelivery team has extended the deadline for the two Public Consultations on the new draft specifications of the eDelivery AS4 profile 2.0 and eDelivery SMP profile 2.0 to 10th November, allowing affected projects additional 21 days to respond to the proposal. The changes to the specifications are still scheduled to be published by the end of the year.  

All eDelivery projects will be affected by the upcoming changes to the eDelivery AS4 specifications and those using dynamic discovery also by the changes to the eDelivery SMP ones. Make sure to validate the proposed changes now before it's too late! Please send us your feedback by 10 November 2023.

The eDelivery community are invited to share their views by to either posting feedback as comments on the public consultation pages linked underneath, or sending an email to EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu by the 10th November 2023. Changes or suggestions received after this date might no longer be taken into account in the final version.

  • For the AS4 2.0 Draft Specification please post your comments here or send them to EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu with [eDelivery AS4 profile version 2.0] in the title of the email. 
  • For the SMP 2.0 Draft Specification please post your comments here or send them to EC-EDELIVERY-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu with [eDelivery SMP profile version 2.0] in the title of the email. 


Draft Specification of the eDelivery AS4 

The version of the new Draft Specification of the eDelivery AS4 profile 2.0 has updates for the security section, where more state-of-the art protocols and algorithms are introduced, and two new Profile Enhancements are proposed, one introducing ebCore Agreement Update and one supporting alternative curves and algorithms for encryption and digital signing. The changes are detailed on both the Public Consultation and new Draft Specification pages. This new Draft Specification marks a backwards-incompatible evolution of the profile, where Access Points operating with profile version 2.0 cannot exchange messages with Access Points operating with profile version 1.x. 


Draft Specification of the eDelivery SMP profiles 2.0 

The new Draft Specification of the eDelivery SMP profile 2.0 is equally backwards-incompatible, where SMP data compatible with profile version 2.0 cannot be consumed by legacy clients. It supports OASIS SMP version 2.0, allows publishing multiple certificates (signing, encryption and key exchange) for a transport and supports both eDelivery AS4 profiles 1.x and 2.0. One can read more about the proposed changes on both the Public Consultation and new Draft Specification pages. 


The two proposed Draft Specifications were designed to work together. 


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