Authorization and Non-Repudiation Properties

This topic describes the behavior of the Is Authorization Required, Non-Repudiation of Origin and Content, and Non-Repudiation Required (Acknowledgement of Receipt) properties of Partner Interface Processes (PIPs). It also describes the combinations of these properties that Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet (BTARN) supports.

You set these properties on the Activity tab of the Process Configuration properties in the Process Configuration Settings section of the BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet Management Console. For more information, see How to Create or Edit a Process Configuration.

Property Behavior

BTARN exhibits the following behavior according to the settings of the Is Authorization Required, Non-Repudiation of Origin and Content, and Non-Repudiation Required (Acknowledgement of Receipt) properties.

Property	Behavior when True	Behavior when False
Is Authorization Required	Incoming action or signal messages must be signed; otherwise, BTARN will reject the message. BTARN does not accept the business document if the individual/role is not authorized to perform the activity.	Incoming action or signal messages do not have to be signed. Simple authorization will still be applied with the partner DUNS number from the RNIF header parts of the message.
Non-Repudiation of Origin and Content	Outgoing action or signal messages will be signed. Action messages will be stored in their original received form in the MessageStorageOut table of the BTARNDATA database.	Outgoing action or signal messages will not be stored.
Non-Repudiation Required (Acknowledgement of Receipt)	Incoming action or signal messages must be signed. The incoming message will be stored in the MessageStorageIn table in the BTARNDATA database. A message digest must be included in the acknowledgement.	Incoming action or signal messages will not be stored.

Property Support

The following table shows BTARN support for combinations of the Is Authorization Required, Non-Repudiation of Origin and Content, and Non-Repudiation Required (Acknowledgement of Receipt) properties.

Important

BTARN must either sign both action messages and signal messages, or neither action messages nor single messages. BTARN does not support signing actions, but not signing signals, or vice versa.

Important

If BTARN signs an outbound message, it must save the message in the MessageStorageOut table of the BTARNArchive database.

Is Authorization Required	Non-Repudiation of Origin and Content	Non-Repudiation Required (Acknowledgement of Receipt)	Supported by BTARN?
False	False	False	Yes
False	False	True	No*
False	True	False	No**
False	True	True	No***
True	False	False	Yes****
True	False	True	Yes****
True	True	False	Yes
True	True	True	Yes

* BTARN does not support this combination because it requires that signals be signed and actions not be signed.

** BTARN does not support this combination because it requires that actions be signed and signals not be signed.

*** BTARN does not support this combination because setting non-repudiation to True for both actions and signals means that BTARN is performing authorization. Therefore, this combination is not valid.

**** When you set Is Authorization Required to True and Non-Repudiation of Origin and Content to False, BTARN stores the message in the non-repudiation table.

See Also

How to Create or Edit a Process Configuration