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Scope

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General This part of ISO/IEC ISP 12063 contains the overall specifications of the support of MHS Elements of Service and associated MHS functionality in an Electronic Data Interchange Messaging (EDIMG) environment which are generally not appropriate for consideration only from the perspective of a single MHS protocol. These specifications form part of the EDI Messagi ng application functions, as defined in the parts of ISO/IEC ISP 12063, and are based on the Common Messaging content type-independent specifications in ISO/IEC ISP 10611. Such specifications are in many cases applicable to more than one MHS protocol or are otherwise concerned with component functionality which, although it can be verified via protocol, is not just related to protocol support. They are therefore designed to be referenced in the MHS EDI Messaging application profiles ISO/IEC ISP 12063-2 (AMH31), ISO/IEC ISP 12063-3 (AMH32), ISO/IEC ISP 12063-4 (AMH33 and AMH35), ISO/IEC ISP 12063-5 (AMH34) and ISO/IEC ISP 12063-6 (AMH36) which specify the support of specific MHS protocols and associated functionality.

The specifications in this part of ISO/IEC ISP 12063 are divided into basic requirements, which are required to be supported by all EDIMG implementations, and a number of optional functional groups, which cover significant discrete areas of related functionality which are not required to be supported by all implementations.

An overview of the scope and applicability of the AMH3n set of profiles and of the structure of this multipart ISP is provided in annex D.

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Position within the Taxonomy This part of ISO/IEC ISP 12063 is the first part, as text common to all parts of the multipart ISP identified in ISO/IEC TR 10000-2 as ""AMH3, Message Handling Systems - EDI Messaging"".

This part of ISO/IEC ISP 12063 does not, on its own, specify any profiles.