FOUNDATION FOR INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS

FIPA Agent Message Transport
Profile Alpha Specification

Document title	FIPA Agent Message Transport Profile Alpha Specification
Document number	OP00077C	Document source	FIPA Agent Management
Document status	Obsolete	Date of this status	2000/08/02
Supersedes	FIPA00024
Contact	fab@fipa.org
Change history
2000/04/17	Separated out from specification OC00024
2000/06/06	Made ready for Experimental status
2000/06/13	FAB editorial and consistency changes
2000/08/02	Made obsolete

Geneva, Switzerland

Notice

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Foreword

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Contents

1 Scope

This document is part of the FIPA specifications and deals with message transportation between inter-operating agents. This document also forms part of the FIPA Agent Management Specification [FIPA00023] and contains specifications for:

· A profile identifying a set of FIPA transport specifications to be used in TCP/IP-capable wireline environments.

2 Profile Alpha

To promote interoperability, FIPA specifies transport profiles for APs. This transport profile is suggested for use in TCP/IP-capable wireline environments and is based upon communication over [FIPA00075].

2.1 Name

The name assigned to this profile is:

fipa.profile.mts.alpha

2.2 Description

To support this profile, a system must implement the specifications given in Table 1 (note that the references are to specific documents and version).

Specification Name

Comments

Specification

FIPA Agent Message Transport Service

The functionality described in this specification must be implemented and called for all messages passing over transport addresses associated[1] with the profile.

PC00067B

[FIPA00067]

FIPA Agent Message Transport Protocol for IIOP

This MTP must be supported on at least one transport address.

PC00075B

[FIPA00075]

Table 1: Conformance Points for Message Transport Service Profile Alpha

3 References

[FIPA00023] FIPA Agent Management Specification. Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, 2000. http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00023/

[FIPA00067] FIPA Agent Message Transport Service Specification. Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, 2000. http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00067/

[FIPA00075] FIPA Agent Message Transport Protocol for IIOP Specification. Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, 2000.
http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00075/

[1] Transport addresses are associated with a profile primarily in an AP (see [FIPA00023]).