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Project Manager (PM): Bogdan Dumitriu

Section 1: Project Management

Milestones Progress

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Technical Progress

Technical

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

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• The disposition of public review comments following the consultation on the first drafts (2023) published: AS4 | SMP.

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• 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.
  

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Profiles

• Guidance documentation, registration and data collection EU Surveys prepared and shared for the Interoperability Events scheduled for 11 Jun 2024 and 25 Jun 2024.
• 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

• Domibus 5.1.3 security 4 bug fix release was published on 05 Apr , including the fixes implemented in 5.0.8, was released on the 13 May 2024.
• Domibus 5.1.5 and 5.0.8 9 bug fix release published on 18 Mar /security fix releases are planned for 17 Jun 2024 and 27 Jun 2024.
• Domibus roadmap updated: Domibus 5.2 to be released in Q4 2024, Domibus 6.0 to be released by end of 2025.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 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: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 ongoingAnalysis
• Ongoing support being provided to strengthen the SW vendors testing their AS4 solutions.
• SMP conformance testing: Support and troubleshooting of the eDelivery Common Profile concluded.
• Work also ongoing to increase the level of service maturity

Onboarding & Communication

• SW vendor conformance 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

• N/A

Service: PKI Service

• N/A

Service: SML Service

• eDelivery-OpenPeppol discussions and joint work underway for OpenPeppol to move records to a new SML Service it would manage directly.

Onboarding and 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 29 Feb 2024: 47 attendees learned about and discussed the disposition of public review comments following the public consultation in 2023 and updated eDelivery 2.0 specifications.
    
  • (PAST) Masters of Digital 21 Feb 2024 Brussels (we followed remotely)
  • (PAST) Our participation in Data Spaces Symposium 12 Mar 2024 to 14 Mar 2024, Darmstadt, cancelled
  (PAST) Boosting the EU Single Market: Towards the Single Digital Gateway 2.0 on19 Mar 2024, Brussels
  •  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)
  • (PAST) DomiSMP 5.0 Instructional how-to videos published on 19 Mar 2024
  • eDelivery Interoperability Forum on 18 Apr 2024 
  • 10th eDelivery ICN meeting on 15 May 2024 
  • Digital Assembly June 2024 (date tbc.), Brussels
  • Interoperability Event on 11 Jun 2024
  • (external event with eDelivery participation) SEMIC 27 Jun 2024, Brussels
  • eDelivery Value Proposition No. 2 Dynamic Discovery Webinar on 26 Sep 2024 
  • Domibus new features Instructional how-to video on 24 Oct 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 Dynamic Discovery 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:
  • (5 Mar) Public consultation 12 April) End of public consultation on eDelivery profile 2.0 Specifications 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
• Newsletters:
  • 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)

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

• Domibus 5.0.8 bug fix released on the 18 Mar 2024 
• Domibus 5.1.3 bug fix released on the 05 Apr 2024, containing a fix for multitenancy related issue and several library upgrades
• Domibus 5.1.4 bug fix release, including the fixes implemented in 5.0.8, is planned for the 08 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

• N/A

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 testing their solutions

Software product: Docker images

• 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

• N/A

Service: SML Service

• • 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
  A 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

status

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	Image Removed	Mar 14, 2024	Mar 26, 2024	Marcio SAMPAIO	Ernest MUTAGANDA
colour Blue title approved
Unresolved	EDELGOV-111	Domibus List Pending Messages Request Case Sensitivity	Image Removed	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	Image Removed	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

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Section 3: Support Office

Incident Management

SMT -

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workload details

The volume of opened and handled SMT tickets decreased slightly in February is stable 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 previous months. In April 2024, there were a lot of questions from users on Docker, Domibus migration, the FS plugin usage, Docker versions available for Domibus, AS4 connectivity test requests, conformance tests, requests to participate in the June 2024 Interoperability forum, feedback from AS4 conformant solutions companies (logos or product names to be updated on the Digital website), etc.

Email

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interaction

For eDelivery, received mails were related to:

• Requests for AS4 connectivity test with SHAOKE (Chinese logistics company), EverysiteGyptis
• 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”SMP conformance testing on Minder for SierraLima6 Limited ongoing, AS4 conformance testing on GITB platform for Nsoftware
• Questions from users: request to have the cost and self-assessment tools, Domibus (WS plugin and ‘markAsDownloaded’ attribute, Domibus upgrade from 5.1. 1 upgrade issues with JMS plugin, Domibus to 5.1.2 and active MQ Broker, WS plugin behaviour1, Docker questions, container image for Domibus 5.1.2 and case sensitivity in ListPendingMessages, Domibus migration to 5.0.6 (EUCEG), certificate and elliptic curve, multitenancy and FS plugin, question on certificate and keys), SML/SMP (SMP/SMK certificate update/renewal, question on adding and deleting participants, intermittent lookup issue on SML due to a DNSSEC configuration  error (SNET investigation ongoing)), PKI certificates (UDBCiXP, EUCEG, DECIDEUDB, CixPEUDAMED, PCNEPREL), 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 744 780 emails in the FMB. We have removed 59 61 emails for SML Inconsistency, 16 73 alerts, 120 14 xmatters and 9 28 emails from PKI CommisSign from the count, which makes a total of 540 610 received mails for the reporting month.

PKI

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In February April 2024, 5 16 certificates were issued: 1 ECDB, 1 PCN, 2 DECIDE (European Council), 1 UDB2 OOTS, 2 IRI, 4 EUCEG,1 UDB, 4 EUDAMED, 2 CiXP and 1 DECIDE.

Operations Management

SML –

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availability

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