High Quality Messaging and Electronic Commerce

I am pleased to introduce this publication based on one of the deliverables of the NO PROBLEMS project. This is one of the projects co-financed by the European Commission in the framework of the TEN-Telecom programme. Electronic commerce is high up on the agenda of the European Commission and is one of the priorities of the TEN-Telecom programme. Electronic commerce requires a reliable and secure communications environment. But in order to attract the large number of Europe's SMEs and the European citizens, electronic commerce support services must be widely accessible at low cost. The NO PROBLEMS project has addressed these challenging requirements by combining two complementary technologies: X.400 messaging for the reliability and the security framework, Internet for the low cost accessibility. NO PROBLEMS is in many regards illustrative of the TEN-Telecom objectives: it combines available technology to provide innovative services to Europe's SMEs. This publication provides an in-depth insight into some of the key technologies expected to playa major role in the support of electronic commerce. Robert Verrue Director General DG XIII European Commission This publication is based on documents of the NO PROBLEMS project, which has been founded by the European Commission DG XIII. The project partners have been INFONOVA GmbH and DATAKOM Austria from Austria as well as ITK Telekommunikation from Germany and ATLANTIDE from France.

Describes comprehensively the protocols, the system management, electronic data interchange (EDI), the security mechanisms and the state of the art of an e-commerce and messaging platform

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This is a technical guide to standards and protocols like X.400 and SMTP for personal electronic mail and electronic commerce based on electronic data interchange (EDI). Security aspects are extensively treated. Part of the book includes results of a project of the European Commission (NOPROBLEMS).

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1 Introduction.- 2 The X.400 Series of Recommendations.- 2.1 The X.400 Standard 1984.- 2.1.1 Functional Model.- 2.1.1.1 User Agent (UA).- 2.1.1.2 Message Transfer System (MTS).- 2.1.1.3 Message Transfer Agent (MTA).- 2.1.2 Message Structure.- 2.1.3 Management Domains.- 2.1.4 Naming and Addressing.- 2.1.5 The ITU-T Service Concept.- 2.1.6 Message System Types and Protocols.- 2.1.7 Problems of X.400 1984.- 2.1.7.1 No Mailbox (Message Store) Standard.- 2.1.7.2 No Distributed Lists.- 2.1.7.3 No Full OSI Stack.- 2.1.7.4 No Distinction Between Name and Address.- 2.1.7.5 Important Service Elements are not Included.- 2.2 The X.400 Standard 1988.- 2.2.1 New Definitions.- 2.2.1.1 X.400 Series of Recommendations 1988.- 2.2.1.2 F.400 Series of Recommendations 1988.- 2.2.2 The Functional Model.- 2.2.2.1 Message Store.- 2.2.2.2 Access Unit.- 2.2.3 Naming and Addressing.- 2.2.3.1 Directory Names.- 2.2.3.2 O/R Addresses.- 2.2.3.3 O/R Names.- 2.2.4 New Features Introduced in MHS 1988.- 2.2.4.1 Distribution Lists (DLs).- 2.2.4.2 Security.- 2.2.4.3 Use of a Directory.- 2.2.4.4 Messaging System Types and Protocols.- 2.2.5 Downgrading X.400 (88) to X.400 (84).- 2.2.5.1 Service Irregularities.- 2.2.5.2 Avoiding Downgrading.- 2.2.5.3 Addressing.- 2.2.5.4 General Approach.- 2.2.5.5 Common Name.- 2.2.5.6 Message Transfer System.- 2.2.5.7 IPM Downgrading.- 2.3 The X.400 Standard 1992.- 2.3.1 F.400 Series of Recommendations 1992.- 2.3.2 X.400 Series of Recommendations of MHS 1992.- 2.4 The X.400 Standard 1996.- 2.5 Proposed Additions to the X.400 Functionality for Multimedia Messaging.- 2.6 Physical Access to the X.400 Service.- 2.6.1 Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).- 2.6.2 Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN).- 2.6.2.1 Relevant Standards on ISDN.- 2.6.3 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).- 2.6.3.1 LAN Emulation (LANE).- 2.6.3.2 Multiple Protocol over ATM (MPOA).- 2.6.4 Packet Switched Data Networks (PSDN) X.25 and Frame Relay.- 2.6.5 Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM).- 3 Internet Mail.- 3.1 RFC 822: Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages.- 3.1.1 Lexical Analysis of Messages.- 3.1.1.1 General Description.- 3.1.1.2 Long Header Fields.- 3.1.1.3 Structure of Header Fields.- 3.1.1.4 Unstructured Field-Bodies.- 3.1.1.5 Structured Field-Bodies.- 3.1.1.6 Header Field Definitions.- 3.1.1.7 Lexical Tokens.- 3.1.2 Message Specification.- 3.1.2.1 Syntax.- 3.1.2.2 Forwarding.- 3.1.2.3 Trace Fields.- 3.1.2.4 Return-Path.- 3.1.2.5 Received.- 3.1.2.6 Originator Fields.- 3.1.2.7 From/Resent-From.- 3.1.2.8 Sender/Resent-Sender.- 3.1.2.9 Reply-To/Resent-Reply-To.- 3.1.2.10 Automatic Use of From/Sender/Reply-To.- 3.1.2.11 Receiver Fields.- 3.1.2.12 Reference Fields.- 3.1.2.13 Other Fields.- 3.1.3 Date and Time Specification.- 3.1.3.1 Syntax.- 3.1.3.2 Semantics.- 3.1.4 Address Specification.- 3.1.4.1 Syntax.- 3.1.4.2 Semantics.- 3.1.4.3 Domains.- 3.1.4.4 Abbreviated Domain Specification.- 3.1.4.5 Domain Terms.- 3.1.4.6 Domain-Dependent Local Strings.- 3.1.4.7 Balancing Local-Part and Domain.- 3.1.4.8 Multiple Mailboxes.- 3.1.4.9 Explicit Path Specification.- 3.1.4.10 Reserved Addresses.- 3.2 RFC 821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.- 3.2.1 The SMTP Procedures.- 3.2.1.1 Mail.- 3.2.1.2 Forwarding.- 3.2.1.3 Verifying and Expanding.- 3.2.1.4 Sending and Mailing.- 3.2.1.5 Opening and Closing.- 3.2.1.6 Relaying.- 3.2.1.7 Domains.- 3.2.1.8 Changing Rules.- 3.2.2 The SMTP Specifications.- 3.2.2.1 SMTP Commands.- 3.2.2.2 Numeric Order List of Reply Codes.- 3.3 SMTP Service Extensions.- 3.3.1 Framework for SMTP Extensions.- 3.3.2 The EHLO Command.- 3.3.2.1 Required Changes to RFC 821.- 3.3.2.2 Command Syntax.- 3.3.2.3 Successful Response.- 3.3.2.4 Failure Response.- 3.3.2.5 Error Responses from Extended Servers.- 3.3.2.6 Responses from Servers Without Extensions.- 3.3.2.7 Responses from Improperly Implemented Servers.- 3.3.3 Initial IANA Registry.- 3.3.4 MAIL FROM and RCPT TO Parameters.- 3.3.4.1 Error Responses.- 3.3.5 Received: Header Field Annotation.- 3.4 Delivery Status Notifications (DSN).- 3.4.1 Framework for the Delivery Status Notifications.- 3.4.2 The Delivery Status Notification Service Extension.- 3.4.2.1 Additional Parameters for RCPT and MAIL Commands.- 3.4.2.2 The NOTIFY Parameter of the ESMTP RCPT Command.- 3.4.2.3 The ORCPT Parameter of the ESMTP RCPT Command.- 3.4.2.4 The RET Parameter of the ESMTP MAIL Command.- 3.4.2.5 The ENVID Parameter of the ESMTP MAIL Command.- 3.4.2.6 Restrictions on the Use of DSN Parameters.- 3.5 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).- 3.5.1 MIME Header Fields.- 3.5.2 MIME-Version Header Field.- 3.5.3 Content-Type Header Field.- 3.5.3.1 Content-Type Defaults.- 3.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding Header Field.- 3.5.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encodings Semantics.- 3.5.5 Content-ID Header Field.- 3.5.6 Content-Description Header Field.- 3.5.7 Additional MIME Header Fields.- 3.6 Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3).- 3.6.1 Introduction.- 3.6.2 Basic Operation.- 3.6.3 The AUTHORISATION State.- 3.6.3.1 QUIT.- 3.6.4 The TRANSACTION State.- 3.6.4.1 STAT.- 3.6.4.2 LIST [msg].- 3.6.4.3 RETR msg.- 3.6.4.4 DELE msg.- 3.6.4.5 NOOP.- 3.6.4.6 RSET.- 3.6.5 The UPDATE State.- 3.6.5.1 QUIT.- 3.6.6 Optional POP3 Commands.- 3.6.6.1 TOP msg n.- 3.6.6.2 UIDL [msg].- 3.6.6.3 USER Name.- 3.6.6.4 PASS String.- 3.6.6.5 APOP Name D.- 3.6.7 Scaling and Operational Considerations.- 3.6.8 POP3 Command Summary.- 3.6.8.1 Minimal POP3 Commands.- 3.6.8.2 Optional POP3 Commands.- 3.6.8.3 POP3 Replies.- 3.6.8.4 Example POP3 Session.- 3.6.8.5 Message Format.- 4 X.400-internet Mail Gateways.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 MIME Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay (MIXER).- 4.2.1 Main Features.- 4.2.1.1 X.400 Features That Cannot be Mapped.- 4.2.1.2 MIXER Conformant Global Address Mapping (MCGAM).- 4.2.1.3 MIME Body Parts.- 4.2.1.4 Conversion Tables.- 4.2.1.5 X.400-MIME Conversion Table.- 4.2.1.6 MIME-X.400 conversion table.- 5 Directory Services.- 5.1 The X.500 Series of Recommendations.- 5.1.1 The X.500 Series of Recomme…