RFC 4823 on FTP Transport for Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange over the Internet

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        RFC 4823

        Title:      FTP Transport for Secure Peer-to-Peer 
                    Business Data Interchange over the Internet 
        Author:     T. Harding, R. Scott
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       April 2007
        Mailbox:    tharding <at> us.axway.com, 
                    rscott <at> us.axway.com
        Pages:      40
        Characters: 80992
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ediint-as3-04.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4823.txt

This Applicability Statement (AS) describes how to exchange structured
business data securely using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for XML,
Binary, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI - ANSI X12 or UN/EDIFACT), or
other data used for business-to-business data interchange for which
MIME packaging can be accomplished using standard MIME content types.
Authentication and data confidentiality are obtained by using
Cryptographic Message Syntax (S/MIME) security body parts.
Authenticated acknowledgements employ multipart/signed replies to the
original message.  This memo provides information for the Internet