A correspondence model for a future military messaging handling system

Messaging service still remains fundamental for military operations. This service is an important tool to fulfill missions, either in time of peace or in time of crisis. Military operational needs must comply with specific requirements. Military standards describe the services that meet these needs. For different reasons, current military messaging standards have become obsolete, thus demanding the definition of new military standards. The main requirements concerning such systems have been put together. The main document, "Future Military Messaging," issued in 2005, identifies the different usages of a future military messaging system with the associated requirements in each case. Even if this document has become the reference model in the military messaging area, new theoretical developments are required. Indeed, it quickly appears that the development of a messaging system compliant only with this model could lead to rigid implementation, preventing any evolution of the system. This article reformulates the messaging system through a new concept called correspondence applied to military messaging. The main interest of this model is to decorrelate the deployment of the policies from the implementation of the messaging handling system. Therefore, it offers new prospects for military messaging systems with the ability of providing different levels of services dedicated to various military environments.