Welcome to MIP4-IES

MIP4-IES is the latest and greatest released specification for the Exchange of Command & Control (C2) Information. This specification has been released by the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP). There will be regular updates published to these specification. The initial (minimum) version to implement was 4.3, newer versions were supposed to be backward compatible to the MIP4-IES 4.3. The latest version MIP4-IES 4.4 is however incompatible with 4.3 in almost every aspect. It is the intent of the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP) to ensure backward compatibility from now on.

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News:

• FMN Management Group has not approved the Corrigendum process!

  This means the standard for Land Command & Control Information Exchange (LC2IE) has not been changed. As a result, usage of MIP4-IES 4.3 will emerge in 2024 and will still be preferred from 2025 until end of 2027!

• FMN Management Group has approved the FMN Spiral 5 specifications!

  The MIP4-IES 4.4 is the standard for Land Command & Control Information Exchange (LC2IE) emerging in 2027, and preferred in 2028 and 2029!

• The ADatP-5644 (a.k.a. WSMP) Web Services Messaging Profile has been promulgated!

  The standard is now publicly available on the NATO Standardization Office (NSO) website!

• Pre-release of the WSMP .Net reference Libraries is publicly available!

  Now that it is a matter of time before WSMP is promulgated the pre-release of the .Net Reference Libraries is available here.

• The ADatP-5644 (a.k.a. WSMP) Web Services Messaging Profile has been ratified!

  The required number of nations has been reached! Soon WSMP will be promulgated!

• MIP4-IES 4.4 has been released!

  The latest version of the MIP4 Interface Exchange Specification has been released! Among other things this release contains a new, simpler Exchange Mechanism based on REST. The schema have been updated to the semantic equivalent of the MIP Information Model (MIM) 5.2. The latest release also contains requirements regarding the Battlespace Geometry Business Object (BO). From version 4.4, implementation have to implement the generic Backward Compatibility Algorithm (BCA). Look here to find all the technical details!

• MIP Information Model 5.2 has been released!

  The MIM 5.2 is the result of more than 2 years of standardization work. It builds on the concepts introduced in the MIM 5.0 and 5.1 and provides several operational and technical improvements. Go to the MIM World for details! Here, you will find all the resources you may wish to access for the MIP Information Model.