Re: Silly EDIFACT question

[Welsh, David]

Title: Harbinger TLE Data Mappers wanted

Randy,

That goes back to some Northern European work back in the late 80's / early 90's; COST306. Out of a lot of early work, there was something called the IFTM (International forwarding and transport message) standard message framework which was developed along the thoughts that all (international) multi-modal transport related messages could be derived from a single framework that represented a model of the transport process; and thus if one correctly implemented the IFTM framework in it's entirity then one had implicitly all the transport messages.

 

-Dave

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Silly EDIFACT question

This may be a stupid question, but here goes anyway. What does the "IFT" stand for in message names like the "IFTSTA"(Status message) or "IFTMIN"(instruction message)?

Does it have a meaning or is it simply a "name" they gave it?

 

Thanks,

Randy Randall

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