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GSA and Treasury Sign Agreement to Pilot Governmentwide Messaging ServicesGSA: # 9375 January 2, 1997 The General Services Administration (GSA) and Department of the Treasury have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement regarding Treasury's Information Technology Innovation Fund proposal for Information Infrastructure / Electronic Messaging Services. This agreement, endorsed by the Government Information Technology Services Board's E-mail Steering Subcommittee (GEMSS), sets the stage for a partnership between GSA's Federal Telecommunications Service (FTS) Center for Electronic Messaging Technologies (CEMT), (also known as the U.S. Government's E-Mail PMO) and Treasury's Office of Telecommunications Management (OTM). The E-mail PMO will be responsible for the overall governmentwide E-mail strategy, directory services, and ensuring that government user needs are satisfied. Under the terms of the agreement, Treasury will pilot the use of its existing network infrastructure, which is the largest secure private network in the civilian government and possibly the U.S., to provide messaging services to other government agencies on a reimbursable basis. Working jointly with the GSA CEMT, Treasury proposes to install, configure, operate, maintain and provide the following: A private Administrative Management Domain (ADMD) (Figure 1) for the federal government (e.g., ADMD=GOVMAIL) as an alternative to existing ADMD systems. Software that provides this function is already in use at Treasury as a Private Management Domain (PRMD) and, working with the FTS2000 Network B ADMD (Telemail), has been tested to verify ADMD functionality. The scope of the project is to configure, install, and integrate software and hardware to provide the requisite ADMD functionality. The ADMD will offer services that include: X.400 electronic messaging using the 1992 Message Handling System (MHS) standard that fully supports the 1984, 1988 and 1992 X.400 EOS implementations. The MHS has an integrated Message Store, a User Agent, work agents, and administrative utilities. The ADMD will be configured with the capabilities to interface with P772 requirements required by the Defense Messaging System, with or without the FORTEZZA capability. The X.400 ADMD, via a standards-based API, will provide the government with the capabilities to meet the NARA Guidelines regarding message archiving from the Message Store. Support for X.400 messaging protocols over X.25, async and TCP/IP. An SMTP/MIME gateway to translate X.400 messages to be delivered from/to customer SMTP/MIME-based systems and Internet addresses. The ADMD will route all SMTP/MIME messages to the Internet via a proxy-agent based firewall similar to the firewall configured and in use supporting the "treas.gov" domain. Translation gateways for translating: cc:Mail; Lotus Notes; Novell Groupwise, Microsoft Mail/Exchange, MHS and other legacy e-mail systems, such as OfficeVision/400, PROFS, DEC All-In-1, HP Desk and HP Openmail. Message Store (MS) capabilities that support desktop client software to access user mailboxes over asynchronous dial-up lines as well as TCP/IP or X.25 networks, and include MAPI (Messaging Application Program Interface), POP (Post Office Protocol), and IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol) support. (NOTE: Remote User Agents with UAFI [User Agent File Interchange] support [for EC/EDI] are available for Windows, DOS, and UNIX workstations. A Remote User Agent is also available for Macintosh systems.) Centralized Messaging Help Desk - Treasury will be responsible for the operation of the Interagency Messaging Help Desk. The Messaging Help Desk will directly interface with the network management system in use by the ADMD and will provide users with professional, expert assistance to solve day-to-day messaging-related problems and issues. Treasury will develop and publish standard operating procedures for the Help Desk and monitor and document all calls for assistance.
1993 conformant X.500 Directory Server, LDAP server front-end, Directory User Agent (DUA), and API facilities to support replication of government White Pages or Yellow Pages lookup services for both users and applications. This Directory Server would be subordinate to the government root Directory Server (o = u.s. government) currently managed and administered by GSA. For purposes of the pilot, the Directory Server could shadow the root Directory Server. Origin authentication to provide a means for one party to validate the identity of another.
Define the performance measures for the pilot;
Mr. Jack L. Finley Ms. Mich�le J. Rubenstein The General Services Administration (GSA) and Department of the Treasury have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement regarding Treasury's Information Technology Innovation Fund proposal for Information Infrastructure / Electronic Messaging Services. This agreement, endorsed by the Government Information Technology Services Board's E-mail Steering Subcommittee (GEMSS), sets the stage for a partnership between GSA's Federal Telecommunications Service (FTS) Center for Electronic Messaging Technologies (CEMT), (also known as the U.S. Government's E-Mail PMO) and Treasury's Office of Telecommunications Management (OTM). The E-mail PMO will be responsible for the overall governmentwide E-mail strategy, directory services, and ensuring that government user needs are satisfied. Under the terms of the agreement, Treasury will pilot the use of its existing network infrastructure, which is the largest secure private network in the civilian government and possibly the U.S., to provide messaging services to other government agencies on a reimbursable basis. Working jointly with the GSA CEMT, Treasury proposes to install, configure, operate, maintain and provide the following: A private Administrative Management Domain (ADMD) (Figure 1) for the federal government (e.g., ADMD=GOVMAIL) as an alternative to existing ADMD systems. Software that provides this function is already in use at Treasury as a Private Management Domain (PRMD) and, working with the FTS2000 Network B ADMD (Telemail), has been tested to verify ADMD functionality. The scope of the project is to configure, install, and integrate software and hardware to provide the requisite ADMD functionality. The ADMD will offer services that include: X.400 electronic messaging using the 1992 Message Handling System (MHS) standard that fully supports the 1984, 1988 and 1992 X.400 EOS implementations. The MHS has an integrated Message Store, a User Agent, work agents, and administrative utilities. The ADMD will be configured with the capabilities to interface with P772 requirements required by the Defense Messaging System, with or without the FORTEZZA capability. The X.400 ADMD, via a standards-based API, will provide the government with the capabilities to meet the NARA Guidelines regarding message archiving from the Message Store. Support for X.400 messaging protocols over X.25, async and TCP/IP. An SMTP/MIME gateway to translate X.400 messages to be delivered from/to customer SMTP/MIME-based systems and Internet addresses. The ADMD will route all SMTP/MIME messages to the Internet via a proxy-agent based firewall similar to the firewall configured and in use supporting the "treas.gov" domain. Translation gateways for translating: cc:Mail; Lotus Notes; Novell Groupwise, Microsoft Mail/Exchange, MHS and other legacy e-mail systems, such as OfficeVision/400, PROFS, DEC All-In-1, HP Desk and HP Openmail. Message Store (MS) capabilities that support desktop client software to access user mailboxes over asynchronous dial-up lines as well as TCP/IP or X.25 networks, and include MAPI (Messaging Application Program Interface), POP (Post Office Protocol), and IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol) support. (NOTE: Remote User Agents with UAFI [User Agent File Interchange] support [for EC/EDI] are available for Windows, DOS, and UNIX workstations. A Remote User Agent is also available for Macintosh systems.) Centralized Messaging Help Desk - Treasury will be responsible for the operation of the Interagency Messaging Help Desk. The Messaging Help Desk will directly interface with the network management system in use by the ADMD and will provide users with professional, expert assistance to solve day-to-day messaging-related problems and issues. Treasury will develop and publish standard operating procedures for the Help Desk and monitor and document all calls for assistance.
1993 conformant X.500 Directory Server, LDAP server front-end, Directory User Agent (DUA), and API facilities to support replication of government White Pages or Yellow Pages lookup services for both users and applications. This Directory Server would be subordinate to the government root Directory Server (o = u.s. government) currently managed and administered by GSA. For purposes of the pilot, the Directory Server could shadow the root Directory Server. Origin authentication to provide a means for one party to validate the identity of another.
Define the performance measures for the pilot;
Mr. Jack L. Finley Ms. Mich�le J. Rubenstein
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