Welcome and introduction 

10 mins

Maya Madrid (CEF eDelivery Business Owner, DG CNECT H4)

• Maya Madrid welcomed the participants, introduced the agenda and provided a brief overview of the action’s objectives, previous and upcoming work.

Update on ISA² IPS REST API profile:

• Presentation of new sections of the profile
• Timeline and next steps

80 mins

Bogdan Dumitriu, Jerry Dimitriou, Vlad Veduta (CEF eDelivery Technical team, DIGIT D3)

• Bogdan Dumitriu introduced the work that was done on the REST API profile since the previous meeting and gave the floor to Jerry Dimitriou who presented the new sections of the REST API profile (the OpenAPI Specification v3 Profile and the Messaging API Specification) from a technical perspective (cf. slides).
• Bogdan Dumitriu shared the updated timeline and informed the group that the team aims to share a new version of the profile, including the work presented during this meeting, towards the end of March - beginning of April 2021. The work would be shared once it reaches a stable state.
• Roberto Polli asked whether Jades define a way to provide "Signature" in multipart.
• Jerry Dimitriou confirmed 

• Philip Helger asked whether the long term goal of the EC was to provide long-term maintenance of the specifications and thus establishing the EC as a standardisation organisation, or to hand over the maintenance to another organisation. 
• Bogdan Dumitriu replied that the profile was not a standard as such, but a collection of references to standards and guidelines for using them, therefore the EC would in any case not take the role of a standardisation organisation. As to the long-term maintenance of the profiles, Bogdan Dumitriu explained that this was a matter for future policy decision making. DIGIT, in its technical role, would be able to ensure the work, given the creation of a policy context, and invited Member States to raise the issue in the appropriate policy working groups.
• Maya Madrid confirmed this comment.
• Christophe Gaie asked whether the EC will share the products of the pilot project with the governments to test them.
• Bogdan Dumitriu confirmed, indicating that, as the work is publicly funded, the deliverables would be fully available by June/July 2021. He further added that part 1 of the profile (the Core Profile) was already shared with the working group in January 2021.

Pilot Domibus integration with CEF EBSI (blockchain): 

• Implementation update

• Bogdan Dumitriu presented the update on Integration with CEF EBSI (Blockchain) (cf. slides).

Update on JRC's work on API guidelines for government

• Status update
• Technical essentials updates about security and privacy aspects
• Interactive session on security and privacy

20210311_API4IPS_WG-5_JRC_final.pdf

EDeliveryWG5_JRC_II.pdf

• Monica Posada presented an update on the JRC’s work on API guidelines for government (cf. slides). Monica also presented the indicative timeline. 
• Mark Boyd then provided information on best practices in API lifecycle management (cf.slides). Mark precised that the key lifecycle issues regarding APIs are security and traceability. 
• Mark then started the interactive session on security and privacy asking first what were the main security threats faced by the countries. 
• Roberto Polli explained that in Italy security threats are mainly linked to information accidentally exposed by APIs which do not implement double checks. 
• Monica Posada asked Roberto whether it would be possible for his organisation to set up a security audit process. 
• Roberto replied that the problem is not only to establish processes but having thousands of agencies is complex for them to implement. Some agencies have the advantage of having great structures and lot of money to implement the security assessment, which is not the case for smaller agencies. 
• Mark Boyd then asked whether countries put in place traceability measures. 
• Manne Andersson answered that at the Swedish eHealth Agency, they are currently looking at profile APIs and talking about traceability over many APIs over many organisations because they see the need for that, but never deep into this. Manne added that this regards public sector but also private sector. 
• Maya Madrid finally thanked all participants and closed the meeting.