The recommended practices have been issued by the Aeronautic and Space European community, through several digital collaboration initiatives related to production of PLM platforms supporting collaborative work within this community (SEINE, BoostAerospace, EADS PLM harmonization or PHENIX, etc). The governance aspect was endorsed by the ASD SSG, while a specific project was launched in order to perform the technical work.
Targeting an international appliance, the TDP message is based on only existing and used international eBusiness PLM standards for data exchange, sharing and long term archiving, and has been collecting inputs, feedbacks and requirements from numerous initiatives and projects, in particular through piloting activities.
This portal constitutes an open and shared place where information of reference are updated concerning the TDP message. It provides information about the project, the architecture of reference defining the context and the environment for which the specifications were produced, the specifications themshelves (with managed configuration), the schemas (in EXPRESS and in XML), a repository of documents and finally references to all the external documents, standards and projects which are related to the TDP message recommended practices.