ENTSOG publishes draft ebMS/AS4 Usage Profile

[Pim van der Eijk <lists@sonnenglanz.net>]

ENTSOG publishes draft ebMS/AS4 Usage Profile

The role of ENTSOG (the European Network of Transmission System 
Operators for Gas) is to facilitate and enhance cooperation between 
national gas transmission system operators (TSOs) across Europe in order 
to ensure the development of a pan-European transmission system in line 
with European Union energy goals. The draft Network Code on 
Interoperability and Data Exchange Rules for European Gas Transmission 
Networks delivered to the European Commission (EC) on 11 September 2013 
specifies that “AS4 shall be used as common data exchange protocol for 
document based data exchanges”. Today, a draft usage profile has been 
published which defines an ENTSOG AS4 Profile that aims to support 
cross-enterprise collaboration in the gas sector using secure and 
reliable exchange of business documents based on the ebMS3/AS4 standard. 
This is done by providing an ENTSOG AS4 ebHandler profile and a usage 
profile for the AS4 communication protocol that allow actors in the gas 
sector to deploy ebMS3/AS4 communication platforms in a consistent and 
interoperable way.

Reference at 
http://ebxml.xml.org/news/entsog-publishes-draft-as4-usage-profile