Intermediary/Gateway Requirements in eProcurement

Hello,

 

FYI, 
the 
CEN workshop "CEN/ISSS Workshop on 'Business Interoperability Interfaces on 
public procurement in Europe' - WS/BII" has produced a Summary report on 
business requirements for a transport infrastructure for e-business documents in 
eProcurement:

 

http://purl.oclc.org/NET/SOI/BusinessRequirements.

 

Section 5.5 describes a 
concept of "gateways" that is very similar to the "relay" model for reliability 
and security.

(And section 5.4 mentions another intermediary 
function, payload processing, which we've not been able to look at 
yet).

 

Pim