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Project Manager (PM): Bogdan Dumitriu

Section 1: Project Management

Milestones Progress

Overall Project Progress

Technical

• eDelivery 2.0 profiles (2023 drafts):
  • The disposition of public review comments following the consultation on the first drafts (2023) published: AS4 | SMP.
• eDelivery 2.0 profiles (2024 drafts):
  • Second drafts of the eDelivery profiles published: AS4 | SMP | BDXL | ebCore Party Id.
  • 2nd public consultation (on the 2024 drafts): 8 March – 8 April. Feedback received from one person / organisation.
    
• Domibus development:
  • Domibus 5.1.3 security fix release was published on 05 Apr 2024.
  • Domibus 5.0.8 bug fix release published on 18 Mar 2024.
  • Domibus roadmap updated: Domibus 5.2 to be released in Q4 2024, Domibus 6.0 to be released by end of 2025.
• eDelivery Conformance Testing service:
  
  • Implementation of test cases for the Pull profile enhancement concluded. Deployment in production to be planned
  • Implementation of test cases for the Dynamic Sender profile enhancement ongoing
  • Analysis to strengthen the testing of the eDelivery Common Profile concluded.
  • Work also ongoing to increase the level of service maturity

Onboarding & Communication

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• (5 Mar) Public consultation on eDelivery 2.0 Specifications 
• (12 Mar) Towards eDelivery 2.0 profiles: Insights from Interoperability Forum on 29 February 
• (14 Mar) Update information on your eDelivery AS4 solution for the new listing page 
• (18 Mar) Domibus 5.0.8 released 
• (19 Mar) Explore the new DomiSMP video series 
• (20 Mar) eDelivery and Digital Building Blocks presented at the Single Digital Gateway high-level event 
• (21 Mar) Interested in our Interoperability Event? See how to prepare 
• (22 Mar) Updated roadmap and support timeline for Domibus 
• (24 Mar) SEMIC 2024: eDelivery and the future of Interoperability 
• (5 Apr) Domibus 5.1.3 released

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• eDelivery no. 7 newsletter published on 26 March. 
• Contribution to Be.Digital newsletter on updated eDelivery 2.0 specifications: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/digit/items/819303/en
• Contribution to Interoperable Europe newsletter on the eDelivery Interoperability Forum (issue still not published)

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  • Preparation for June Interoperability Event, where the proposed specifications will be tested, underway.
    
• Domibus 5.1.4 bug fix release, including the fixes implemented in 5.0.8, was released on the 13 May 2024.
• Domibus 5.1.5 and 5.0.9 bug/security fix releases are planned for 17 Jun 2024  and 27 Jun 2024.
• Domibus new documentation framework (doc as code) and visual presentation launched with Domibus 5.0.8 release and will be the new approach for all new Domibus releases.
• eDelivery Conformance Testing service: Implementation of tests for most of the missing eDelivery AS4 1.15 profile enhancements (optional parts) for conformance testing underway, to be launched in July 2024.

Onboarding & Communication

• Onboarding:
  • Presentation of eDelivery Building Block to BARIS from DG FISMA. They are interested in using eDelivery via EU Send.
• Events:
  • (PAST) eDelivery Interoperability Forum on 18 Apr 2024, remotely
  • (PAST) 10th eDelivery ICN meeting on 15 May 2024, remotely
  • (external event with eDelivery participation) OpenPeppol's eInvoicing and eReporting Conference 30 May 2024, Brussels
  • Interoperability Event on 11 Jun 2024 & 25 Jun 2024, remotely
  • (external event with eDelivery participation) Digital Assembly June 2024 (date tbc.), Brussels
  • (external event with eDelivery participation) SEMIC 27 Jun 2024, Brussels
  • Dynamic Discovery Webinar on 26 Sep 2024 (revised), remotely
  • eDelivery Interoperability Forum on 24 Oct 2024, remotely
  • 11th eDelivery ICN meeting on 19 Nov 2024, Brussels
  • eDelivery Value Proposition No. 2 Webinar on 12 Dec 2024 (to be revised as happens on the same day as OOTS accelerator event), remotely
  • Domibus new features videos in Q4 2024 (revised), remotely
  • eDelivery Trust Models Webinar in 2025, remotely
    
•  Blog:
  • (12 April) End of public consultation on eDelivery profile 2.0 specifications
  • (26 April) Recap of eDelivery Interoperability Forum meeting on 18 April
  • (3 May) Domibus documentation available in new format
  • (13 May) Domibus product lines aligned with release of Domibus 5.1.4
  • (16 May) Getting ready for the Interoperability Events to test eDelivery AS4 2.0 specifications
  • (20 May) New listing of eDelivery AS4 conformant solutions
• Newsletters:
  • Contribution to Be.Digital April 2024 newsletter: article on Single Digital Gateway event & and eDelivery is also featured in the EU Send article
    
  • Interoperable Europe newsletter (with our contribution) aims to resume in July

Technical Progress

Specifications: eDelivery AS4, SMP, BDXL, ebCore Party Id 2.0 Profiles

• Guidance documentation, registration and data collection EU Surveys prepared and shared for the Interoperability Events scheduled

Technical Progress

Specifications: eDelivery AS4 & SMP Profiles

• The disposition of public review comments for the comments received during the first public consultation and the updated (AS4 2.0, SMP 2.0) and the new (BDXL 2.0, ebCore Party Id 2.0) draft specifications published:
  • eDelivery AS4 - 2.0 (2024 PR draft)
  • eDelivery SMP - 2.0 (2024 PR draft)
  • eDelivery BDXL - 2.0 (2024 PR draft)
  • eDelivery ebCore Party Id 2.0 (2024 PR draft)
• The public consultation on the new drafts ended on 8 April: feedback received from one person / organisation.
• To test the new specifications, two Interoperability Events are being prepared for 11 Jun 2024 and 25 Jun 2024.

Software product: Domibus

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• Domibus PoC implementing the new specifications prepared for use during the event.
• PoC validation tool of the new specifications prepared; to be shared with participants.

Software product: Domibus

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• Domibus 5.1.4 bug fix release, including the fixes implemented in 5.0.8, is planned for the 08 was released on the13 May 2024 .
• Domibus 5.2 RC

  • Limited progress due to the effort required for several bug fix releases and the extensive maintenance and support workload. Revisited eDelivery roadmap:

    • Domibus 5.2 RC - Q4 2024 | Domibus 5.2 FR – Q4 2024

    • Domibus 6.0 RC – Q3 2025 | Domibus 6.0 FR – Q4 2025

• Domibus new documentation framework
  • The new Domibus documentation framework and supporting processes is concluded and will be launched with the Domibus 5.0.8 release.

Software product: DomiSMP

• DomiSMP 5.1 RC development activities are ongoing.

Software product: DomiSML

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• 5.1.5 and 5.0.9 bug/security fix releases are planned for 17 Jun 2024  and 27 Jun 2024. Main drivers for both these releases are:
  • Vulnerability assessment received from the EP and the OWASP third party library vulnerability analysis process.
  • Bug affecting the Domibus admin console in specific contexts.
• Domibus new documentation framework (doc as code)
  • In production, initially with Domibus 5.0.8 release, and now with all the following Domibus versions.

Software product: DomiSMP

• DomiSMP 5.1 RC development activities are ongoing.

Software product: DomiSML

• DomiSML 4.3 Vulnerability Assessment Report, 2nd version of the report was received and analyzed. Minor corrective actions have been defined and assigned to the next planned version.
• DomiSML 5.0 RC planned to be started on the 25 Oct 2024.
  

Software product: eDelivery Conformance Testing Platform / Service: Conformance Testing Service

• eDelivery AS4 1.15 profile enhancements conformance testing implementation:
  Implementation of test cases for the Pull profile enhancement concluded. Deployment in production to be planned
  • Implementation of test cases for the Dynamic Sender profile enhancement ongoing
• Ongoing support being provided to the SW providers vendors testing their AS4 solutions.

Software product: Docker images

• SMP conformance testing: Support and troubleshooting of SW vendor conf testing activities (Minder platform)
• Preparations for a bug fix release of the platform is ongoing, it will include the deployment of the PKI path and ENTSOG profile enhancements and several minor bug fixes.

Software product: Docker images

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• Domibus 5.0.8 in a Tomcat + MySQL configuration Docker images for published on the 19 Mar 2024 (OOTS).
• Docker image performance testing concluded

Service: PKI Service

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Service:

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SML Service

• A meeting with a delegation from Singapore, leading the SML Federation work in Peppol, took place on 27 May 2024. Given the scope of the exercise underway, an estimate of 18+ months was mentioned for the end of the pilot.
• In the meantime, an alternative plan for insourcing the SML Service in Peppol as it is is under discussionA renewed collaboration was established with OpenPeppol. eDelivery will take part in the Peppol Critical Infrastructure Working Group and the upcoming pilot for SML federation.

Section 2: Evolutive Maintenance

Change Requests

Key	Summary	T	Created	Updated	Due	Assignee	Reporter	P	Status	Resolution
EDELGOV-112	Well balancing web page DOMIBUS Admin: header takes more place than the body where are messages to monitor		Mar 14, 2024	Mar 26, 2024		Marcio SAMPAIO	Ernest MUTAGANDA		Status colour Blue title approved	Unresolved
EDELGOV-111	Domibus List Pending Messages Request Case Sensitivity		Feb 14, 2024	Mar 26, 2024		Marcio SAMPAIO	Alexandros Christofi		Status colour Blue title approved	Unresolved
EDELGOV-92	eDelivery growth factor by improved DNS recommendation of SML discovery		Dec 2, 2022	Mar 26, 2024		Joze RIHTARSIC	Gunnar Nilsson		Status subtle true colour Red title rejected	No Action
EDELGOV-89	Fulfill the requirements on the BDEW AS4 Profile		Oct 28, 2022	Sep 22, 2023		Cosmin BACIU	Sven Uthe		Status subtle true colour Blue title under review	Unresolved
EDELGOV-76	Request for investigation of using multihop functionality with AS4		Nov 12, 2020	Sep 28, 2022		Marcio SAMPAIO	Ole Vilstrup Møller		Status subtle true colour Yellow title postponed	On hold
EDELGOV-51	Dynamic Service discovery - SML/SMP change request		Sep 28, 2018	Sep 22, 2023		Marcio SAMPAIO	CIF VSRS		Status subtle true colour Blue title under review	Unresolved

Release Calendar

Section 3: Support Office

Incident Management

SMT - Workload Details

The volume of opened and handled SMT tickets decreased slightly in February compared to the month before, but not significantly.  The peak of requests in January and February 2023 is due to the large number of renew/issuing of PKI Certificates as the deadline to renew PKI certificates from T-Systems to CommisSign was the 31/01/2023. In February 2024, there were a lot of questions from users on Domibus migration, the FS plugin usage, Docker versions available for Domibus, AS4 connectivity test requests, etc.

Email Interaction

For eDelivery, received mails were related to:

• Requests for AS4 connectivity test with SHAOKE (Chinese logistics company), Everysite
• eDelivery conformance tests: ongoing tests on new platform for OpenTunnel, OpenText and Harmony successfully passed the tests (OpenText on the ‘old’ platform, Harmony on the ‘new’ GITB) and their solution was published on the AS4 conformant solution page on Digital website.
• Answers for the “Public Consultations on eDelivery AS4 profile 2.0 and eDelivery SMP profile 2.0”
• Questions from users: Domibus (Domibus 5.1.1 upgrade issues with JMS plugin, Domibus 5.1.2 and active MQ Broker, WS plugin behaviour, Docker questions, Domibus 5.1.2 and case sensitivity in ListPendingMessages, Domibus migration to 5.0.6 (EUCEG), certificate and elliptic curve, multitenancy and FS plugin), SML/SMP (SMP/SMK certificate update/renewal), PKI certificates (UDB, EUCEG, DECIDE, CixP, PCN), TAPAS (ICS2 connectivity test assistance requests (re-directed to the National service desks), onboarding request forwarded to National Helpdesk), followup of issues raised to Oracle support)
• There was a total of 744 emails in the FMB. We have removed 59 emails for SML Inconsistency, 16 alerts, 120 xmatters and 9 emails from PKI CommisSign from the count, which makes a total of 540 received mails for the reporting month.

PKI

In February 2024, 5 certificates were issued: 1 ECDB, 1 PCN, 2 DECIDE (European Council), 1 UDB.

Operations Management

SML – Availability

The achieved availability for SML1 was within the target for the month of February.

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