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<p>18 April 2024 | 10.30 - 12.30 </p>

<h3>eDelivery Interoperability Forum: AS4-conformant solutions</h3>

<p>In the second community meeting this year, we are going to focus on the eDelivery AS4-conformant solutions and their new listing on our website. For this, dear product and service vendors, please share updated information about your software.</p>

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DIGITAL EUROPE

Event | eDelivery Interoperability Forum

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18 April 2024

 

Thursday, 18 April 2024 / 10.30 - 12.30 (CEST)

Summary

This year's second community meeting briefly summarised the public consultation on the eDelivery 2.0 specifications, anticipated the Interoperability Event, and highlighted eDelivery's AS4-compliant solutions and their new listing on our website.

We are unveiling a new page showcasing

Event summary

The collaboration between eDelivery and software and service providers continues in 2024: we meet for the fourth time to share knowledge, experiences and expectations in regards to the eDelivery Building Block. 

The eDelivery Interoperability Forum is a platform for software and service vendors to connect with the eDelivery team and to exchange ideas, ensuring that products using eDelivery are interoperable! For this reason, a close exchange with private-sector eDelivery solutions is invaluable. Topics that will be following us through 2024 will range from discussing the interoperability of the eDelivery AS4 2.0 and SMP 2.0 specifications, the finalisation of how we present and promote conformant solutions and many more.

For this Interoperability Forum meeting we plan to launch a new website presenting all solutions that pass the eDelivery conformance testing as well as make some time for questions towards the Implementation Plan (detail tbc.) of the eDelivery AS4 and SMP 2.0 specifications. AS4 conformance testing. For that matter, we invite product and service providers to update us on their software through this questionnaire.

Additionally, our colleagues from the OOTS presented this digital ecosystem and its reuse of eDelivery to facilitate the lives of European citizens.

For a recap, see our blog article.

Sign up to become a member of the network an Interoperability Forum member and receive the calendar invitations if you think joining these conversations would benefit you and us! 

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Presentation

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About Interoperability Forum

The eDelivery Interoperability Forum serves as a platform for interaction between the European Commission and solution providers regarding the eDelivery Building Block.

Objectives include sharing information on technical evolution, market opportunities and needs related to eDelivery. The eDelivery Interoperability Forum is a space to exchange ideas and ensure products using eDelivery work well together.

The eDelivery Interoperability Forum is a registration-based platform. Membership is required to attend meetings. Meetings are not recorded.

Following the pause due to the COVID pandemic, regular meetings have resumed, with three held in 2023 and this one being the second meeting for 2024. An additional Forum meeting is planned for October and an Interoperability Event in June.

Get in touch

If you have any additional comments or questions on the webinar, or generally concerning eDelivery or the Service Offering please reach out to us via our Service Desk.

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Meeting minutes

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Agenda & policy update

Maya Madrid (MM), eDelivery policy officer (DG CNECT)

  • eIDAS regulation is close to adoption, with implementing acts to follow; the first set of them due in Q3 or Q4 of 2024. eIDAS defines electronic registered delivery services for eDelivery. 
  • the eDelivery Building Block is supported under the DIGITAL Europe Programme running until 2027. Discussions are ongoing for the work programme covering 2025 to 2027.

eDelivery updates


Bogdan Dumitriu (BD)

  • upcoming eDelivery events (learn more here) include participation in the PEPPOL conference (29-30 May) and SEMIC (27 June). 
  • public consultation ended for the updated eDelivery profile 2.0 drafts for AS4, SMP, BDXL, and ebCore Party Id, with feedback received from one party. Disposition of public review comments will be published in the coming weeks. The specifications could be adopted by the end of 2024 if no further significant changes are required. 
  • software vendors were encouraged to stay engaged through the newsletter and community platforms for updates on eDelivery specifications and services. 
  • the roadmap of the conformance testing platform plans for a new version of the conformance testing service (2024.07) for mid-2024 and another one for end 2024. 
  • a study on the potential use of Dynamic Discovery in the OOTS ecosystem identified several gaps, for this reason eDelivery SMP specifications may need to be updated in 2025. 
  • several ecosystems from those known to the eDelivery Building Block started to reuse eDelivery recently, including the OOTS, the Union Database of Biofuels, and the CESOP. New projects such as ATHINA by HERA are also considering the use of eDelivery for health threat tracking. 
Sharing eDelivery user needs

Cosmin Baciu (CB)

  • the effort to enhance vendor visibility within the eDelivery community was extended with sharing user needs received for the eDelivery AS4 sample implementation. Providers are encouraged to consult the list and assess them for implementation in their own solutions. 
  • an initial list of eight user needs for AS4 software were presented, available on this page. The page will be further updated in the future. 

In reply to questions from the Interoperability Forum members, the eDelivery project officer clarified the following: 

  • The presented requests come from both private and public sector users. 
  • Features are approved/rejected by the eDelivery Operational Management Board and are prioritised based on multiple factors (for example, the number of ecosystems concerned). Implementation eventually depends on available resources and strategic planning. 
  • The eDelivery team does not systematically advise users to look at other solutions implementing specific features but will look into measures to improve transparency. 
  • For specification changes, the eDelivery team consults with ETSI, but ETSI (a standards body) is not consulted for product-related changes.

New presentation of conformant solutions

Bogdan Dumitriu (BD)

  • to feature correctly in the new listing of eDelivery AS4-conformant solutions, software vendors were urged to share updated information about their solutions via the form. 
  • in the new listing, users have better access to links, a new traffic-light system reflecting the testing date, conformance badges, a split of the presentation into products and services, and sorting and labelling according to the eDelivery conformance testing service version. 
  • at the moment, solutions are assigned to one conformance testing service version (2023.06) if tested after the release of eDelivery AS4 1.15 specifications, or to a legacy category (pre-2023.06) otherwise. 
  • the new design is expected to launch around the end of April. [The launch date was eventually set to 20 May 2024 to allow solution providers to review the new listing before then.]

Presentation of an eDelivery-based ecosystem: The Once-Only Technical System

João Rodrigues Frade (JF) & Flora Kardos​ (FK)

  • the OOTS was presented and its significance in improving cross-border transactions highlighted. The technical structure of the OOTS, emphasising the role of eDelivery Access Points and the support for Member States in setting these up, were explained. 
  • software vendors were encouraged to look into this ecosystem as their solutions may be chosen by Members States for Access Point setup for the OOTS.

Update on the Interoperability Event

Bogdan Dumitriu (BD)

  • the event, aimed at validating the usability of the new eDelivery profile 2.0 draft specifications, will be held on 11 & 25 June. On both days there will be a three-hour Webex session. 
  • the event is currently in the pre-registration phase via email, with formal registrations via EUSurvey to follow and be open until 30 May. Guidance documentation is in preparation, to detail test cases, configuration parameters and required digital certificates. Configurations should be ready on event day.

Questions & closing

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  • in upcoming meeting, the eDelivery team would like to shift focus to more dialogue with Interoperability Forum members. 
  • in response to a question about potential changes to dynamic discovery to support the OOTS ecosystem, it the Building Block’s intention to align with the BDXL technical committee's work on the upcoming SMP 2.1 standards as much as possible was affirmed. 
  • an eDelivery Interoperability Forum member raised concerns about the security proposals in the draft specifications. In reply, it was clarified that no major changes were expected in the proposals, not ruling out the possibility of further refinement following the results of the Interoperability Event. Organising a discussion could be considered in the run-up to the next Forum meeting planned for October.
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Other useful links:

About eDelivery

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The eDelivery building block Building Block helps public administrations and businesses (and indirectly citizens) to participate in eDelivery messaging infrastructures which facilitate organisation-to-organisation messaging by enabling their systems to interact with each other in a secure, reliable and trusted way. The Digital Europe Programme currently ensures the funding of the services offered by the eDelivery building block as part of its policy of promoting the adoption of common standards in different policy domains (such as eJustice, eProcurement, eCustoms, eProcurement, eHealth, etc.) under Specific Objective 5.

About

the building blocks:

Building Blocks

The Building Blocks are standards-based open and reusable digital solutions that enable basic capabilities, such as trusted authentication and secure data exchange. They offer basic capabilities that can be used in any European project to facilitate the delivery of digital public services across borders.

Deployed alone or as a portfolio, the building blocks allow data to become the digital lifeblood of modern services, built on the principle of interoperability. The building blocks implement the provisions of the eIDAS regulation on authentication and trust services in the internal market, a global legal and technical reference in secure, trusted cross-border authentication.

The role of the building blocks can also be seen in the digitisation and innovation of market processes. Digital solutions that respect a common standard open up balanced competition within the internal market, along with the door to innovative new processes and a greening of old, paper-based business processes.

About

the

Digital Europe Programme

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The Digital Europe Programme introduced some organisational changes to the provision of cross-border interoperable digital services deployed under it. This includes focused efforts to support the digital transformation of public administrations throughout Europe.

The Digital Europe Portal is the home of the eIDAS enabler building blocks: eDelivery, eID, eInvoicing, eSignature and OOTS. It is the one-stop shop for information about the building blocks. The portal provides access to tools, services and software that can be used in any European project to facilitate the delivery of digital public services across borders.