The eDelivery Interoperability Forum has been relaunched!
On the 3rd of May, the eDelivery Interoperability Forum has been relaunched! The Forum is one of the most important platforms for information and feedback sharing between the eDelivery team and the entities interested in the eDelivery building block.
The Interoperability Forum was an invaluable occasion to take stock of past accomplishments while charting the road ahead for the building block. The meeting kicked off with an introduction of policy updates on eDelivery and the Digital Europe Programme by Maya Madrid, the Policy Officer in charge of eDelivery. It was followed by IT Project Officer Bogdan Dumitriu’s presentation (slides available here) highlighting key news and product developments from eDelivery.
Firstly, he showcased the increasing success in adopting eDelivery by several key projects and the future market opportunities using eDelivery as a dataspace co-creator. In this context, eDelivery's prominent role as a provider of open standards is recognised by the European Commission and businesses: over 84 EU projects across all sectors - from logistics to the judiciary - are adopting eDelivery solutions. Similarly, eDelivery’s tested and reliable standards are recognised as a good solution for current and future data spaces. For example, thanks to its flexibility and reliability, eDelivery was selected among the reusable solutions for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) pilot for the exchange of secondary health data.
The highlight of the Interoperability Forum was marked by key announcements, specifically on profile enhancement, public consultations, and updates in the conformance testing services. The planned release of the AS4 and SMP profile enhancement is expected to be completed after the eDelivery public consultation, scheduled to be launched in Q2 2023. The process will be an invaluable occasion for service and solution providers to provide input on the current specifications and feedback on the suggested changes. The drafts for the new profiles are already available online (click here for AS4 2.0 and here for SMP 2.0). Moreover, with the family of eDelivery conformant solutions steadily growing, the team has devised a new way to display them on a new conformance testing platform, showcasing AS4, SMP, and SML solutions and ensuring that the recently tested ones appear clearer to the users. The platform is based on Interoperable Europe’s GITB (Generic Interoperability Test Bed), and is set to go live on the 19th of May 2023. It will present several advantages for the users, it will be more modern and allow the project team to expand the test suite much faster. To highlight the user-friendly nature of the platform, the eDelivery team showed a live-in demo to the attendees, which concluded this edition of the Interoperability Forum.
The relaunch of the eDelivery Interoperability Forum has been the most attended to date, and its success would not have been possible without the help of the community!
Following enthusiastic feedback from stakeholders, the eDelivery team is excited to announce that the next edition of the eDelivery Interoperability Forum will take place on the 27th of June 2023 at 11:00 CEST in a virtual format. What's more - the next Forum will revolve around the needs and requests of our community! The event will be an invaluable chance for service and solution providers to express their views, suggestions and share best practices around future activities organised by the eDelivery team. For this reason, on top of inviting existing stakeholders to share feedback on the past edition of the forum through dedicated surveys, the eDelivery team is looking forward to growing the number of participants to the Forum! If you are a service and solutions provider and would like to be a point of contact for the Forum, you can apply here. More information on past editions of the eDelivery Interoperability Forum is available here.
The eDelivery Building Block
eDelivery is a building block that provides technical specifications and standards, installable software and ancillary services to allow projects to create a network of nodes for secure digital data exchange.
Domibus is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery AS4 Access Point for the interoperable, secure and reliable data exchange. It is based on the eDelivery AS4 profile, an open technical specification for the secure, web-based, payload-agnostic exchange of data or documents.
DomiSMP is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery Service Metadata Publisher for publishing and retrieving data necessary for an eDelivery party to dynamically configure its system for message exchange with counterparties using eDelivery. It is based on the eDelivery SMP profile, an open technical specification for publishing service metadata within a 4-corner network.
DomiSML is the sample software provided by the European Commission to implement an eDelivery Service Metadata Locator for an eDelivery party to discover the URLs of other counterparties using eDelivery Access Points and their corresponding metadata. It is based on the eDelivery BDXL profile, an open technical specification for locating Access Points within a network, and on the PEPPOL SML Specification, a technical specification defining a BDXL administration API.
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