5.1 Choreography

This clause defines the method by which a company can communicate an individual message defined in Part 2 and Part 3 of the ECM standard to a business partner via (i) a cloud-based storage server (such as an SFTP server) that is hosted by the message sender, (ii) a cloud-based storage server that is hosted by the message recipient or (iii) a cloud-based storage server that is hosted by a third party.

This Part of the ECM standard does not therefore define on whose hardware the messages are being stored. This is determined in accordance with the bilateral agreement between the sender and the recipient of the messages.

The choreography for the message-by-message profile is as depicted in Figure 1.

Figure 1 – Choreography of the message-by-message profile

The Acknowledgement is defined in Clause 7 of this part of the ECM standard. The organisation of the server and the file naming convention for the message-by-message profile are defined in Clauses 5.2 and 5.3 and an example provided in Clause 5.4 below.

The recipient of the Acknowledgement may remove it from the cloud-based storage server after an appropriate and mutually agreed period of time. The default period is one month.