703039867OVERALL STATUS: YELLOW
Date:
Reporting Period: toProject Owner (PO): DG CNECT
Business Manager (BM): Maya Madrid
Solution Provider (SP): DIGIT
Project Manager (PM): Bogdan Dumitriu
Section 1: Project Management
Milestones Progress
Title | Start Date | End Date | % completed | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domibus 5.0.10 |
| 88% | IN PROGRESS | ||
| Domibus 5.1.7 |
| 66% | IN PROGRESS | ||
| Domibus 5.2 RC | Q2 2025 | 80% | IN PROGRESS | delayed to allow upgrade to Java 21. | |
| Domibus 5.2 FR | Q2 2025 | Q2 2025 | 0% | NOT STARTED | delayed to allow upgrade to Java 21. |
| Domibus - technical consolidation / internal tasks | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | 0% | NOT STARTED | |
| Domibus 6.0 RC | Q3 2025 | Q2 2026 | 0% | NOT STARTED | Dependent on budget confirmation as of May 2025 onward |
Q2 2026 | Q3 2026 | 0% | NOT STARTED | ||
| DomiSML 5.0 RC | 61% | IN PROGRESS | |||
| DomiSML 5.0 FR | 0% | NOT STARTED | Dependent on budget confirmation as of May 2025 onward | ||
| DomiSML 5.0.1 |
|
| 0% | NOT STARTED | |
| DomiSMP 5.1.1 |
|
| 0% | NOT STARTED | |
| DomiSMP 5.2 RC |
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| 0% | NOT STARTED | |
| DomiSMP 5.2 FR |
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| 0% | NOT STARTED | |
| eDelivery AS4, SMP, BDXL & ebCore Party Id 2.0 profiles | 100% | COMPLETED | The main focus of this profile version is the upgrade to new cryptographic algorithms and support SMP 2.0. A first public consultation was held between July 2023 - November 2023. A second public consultation was held between 8 March 2024 - 8 April 2024. Five products were tested during three interoperability events organised in June and October 2024, with 3 products able to exchange fully among each other and the other 2 only partially. The new profiles are submitted for adoption by the eDelivery OMB on 4 December 2024. Following adoption by the eDelivery OMB, the new profiles were published on 5 December 2024. | ||
| Conformance testing service: Full support for eDelivery AS4 1.15 profile | 60% | IN PROGRESS | Support for pull enhancement, dynamic sender and dynamic receiver profile enhancements to be introduced in April 2025, but support for Split & Join (the last unsupported profile enhancement) postponed without a new planned date. | ||
| Conformance testing service: Extended coverage of eDelivery AS4 1.15 Common Profile | 52% | ON HOLD | |||
| Migration to GITLab | Q1 2026 | 12% | ON HOLD | The preliminary exercise of duplicating the DomiSMP and Domibus project in GITLab for viability test purposes concluded. Activity on hold until Q4 2025 as use of Atlassian tools (JIRA, BitBucket, Bamboo) currently is extended until end 2027. | |
| Update of eDelivery reusing projects & stakeholders repository | | 30% | IN PROGRESS | The milestone will be considered completed when all the eDelivery reusing projects pages are updated and confirmed in Jira with the corresponding project managers. | |
| eDelivery FAQ |
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| 65% | IN PROGRESS | Content under review. |
| eDelivery Self-Assessment |
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| 85% | IN PROGRESS | Review and update to the relating documents to be available on the eDelivery website. |
| Pitch and launch joint Building Blocks social media account | 70% | IN PROGRESS | Launch social media accounts together with other Building Blocks. | ||
| Webinar on eDelivery value proposition (Member States) in January |
| 15% | IN PROGRESS | The webinar has been rescheduled to March. | |
| How-to video on Domibus new features 2024 Q4 |
|
| 0% | NOT STARTED | |
| eDelivery Informal Cooperation Network meeting 26 November |
|
| 100% | COMPLETED | |
| eDelivery Newsletter No. 10 (December 2024) |
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| 100% | COMPLETED | The newsletter No. 10 has been issued on for 1558 recipients. |
| eDelivery Interoperability Forum Meeting 27 February |
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| 15% | IN PROGRESS | |
| Trust Models Webinar in June (tentative) |
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| 0% | NOT STARTED | Webinar has been rescheduled for June |
| 12th eDelivery Informal Cooperation Network meeting 7 May 2025 |
|
| 5% | IN PROGRESS | |
| Digital Building Blocks Newsletter No. 6 (Jan 2025) |
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| 100% | COMPLETED | Digital Building Block Newsletter no. 6 published on 14 Jan 2024 |
| eDelivery Newsletter No. 11 (March 2025) |
|
| 15% | IN PROGRESS | The content has been identified |
| Digital Building Blocks Newsletter No. 7 (May 2025) |
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| 15% | IN PROGRESS | |
| Conformance testing report |
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| 30% | IN PROGRESS | Updating eDelivery Conformance testing report |
| Content review of the website “get started” section |
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| 30% | IN PROGRESS | |
| Cost estimation tool |
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| 5% | IN PROGRESS | Updating and revamping the cost estimation tool |
| eDelivery tutorial |
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| 5% | IN PROGRESS | Drafting an eDelivery tutorial to assist in onboarding stakeholders |
Technical Progress
Specifications: eDelivery AS4, SMP, BDXL, ebCore Party Id 2.0 Profiles
- The new specifications were published on .
- The disposition of public review comments for the (eventually rejected) proposed new feature on uncompressed payload non-repudiation were prepared and published on on the consultation page.
- The eDelivery team participated in the December meeting of the European Cybersecurity Certification Group to present a change request for adding EdDSA in a next version of the SOG-IS Crypto Evaluation Scheme - Agreed Cryptographic Mechanisms document.
- A new session of the eDelivery Interoperability Event tentatively planned for September 2025.
Software product: Domibus
- The following Domibus patch releases are being prepared:
- 5.0.10 planned for
- 5.1.7 planned for
- Domibus 5.2 RC development work is ongoing
- As a consequence of a series of factors, the release date for Domibus 5.2 RC has been pushed to Q2 2025. Domibus 5.2 FR is still planned for Q2 2025.
Software product: DomiSMP
- DomiSMP 5.1.1 activities planned to be started on .
Software product: DomiSML
- DomiSML 5.0 RC development work is ongoing, release planned for the .
Software product: eDelivery Conformance Testing Platform / Service: Conformance Testing Service
- The patch release 2023.06-p1 of the platform including the deployment of the PKI path and ENTSOG profile enhancements and several minor bug fixes was released on .
- eDelivery AS4 1.15 profile enhancements conformance testing implementation:
- Implementation of test cases for the Dynamic Receiver profile enhancement ongoing.
- Release 2025.04, the scope of which includes the test cases for the Dynamic Sender, Dynamic Receiver and Pull profile enhancements, is planned for April 2025.
- Absent the ability to update the conformance testing platform to support the 2.0 specifications during 2025, we are preparing a standalone tool that will provide limited self-testing/self-validation support to solution providers preparing 2.0-conformant solutions.
Software product: Docker images
- N/A
Service: PKI Service
- N/A
Service: SML Service
- SML Service security plan review completed, signature process underway.
Section 2: Evolutive Maintenance
Change Requests
| Key | Summary | T | Created | Updated | Status | Resolution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDELGOV-119 | SML SOAP fault responses not standard compliant | Jan 03, 2025 | Jan 28, 2025 | REJECTED | Fixed | |
| EDELGOV-118 | Change Domibus to enable configuring the mixed PMode for validating incoming messages | Dec 03, 2024 | Jan 28, 2025 | APPROVED | Unresolved | |
| EDELGOV-116 | Domibus features - iSupport | Nov 04, 2024 | Jan 28, 2025 | UNDER REVIEW | Unresolved | |
| EDELGOV-89 | Fulfill the requirements on the BDEW AS4 Profile | Oct 28, 2022 | Jan 15, 2025 | UNDER REVIEW | Unresolved | |
| EDELGOV-76 | Request for investigation of using multihop functionality with AS4 | Nov 12, 2020 | Sep 28, 2022 | POSTPONED | On hold | |
| EDELGOV-51 | Dynamic Service discovery - SML/SMP change request | Sep 28, 2018 | Jan 15, 2025 | UNDER REVIEW | Unresolved |
Release Calendar
Section 3: Support Office
Incident Management
SMT - workload details
The increase in SNOW tickets experienced since July 2024, seems to be tapering off since October. There were also questions from users on docker, Domibus migration, plugins, conformance and connectivity tests requests and questions, etc.
Email interaction
For eDelivery, received mails were related to:
In November 2024, received mails were related to:
- eDelivery AS4 connectivity test: Appfuxion Consulting Sdn. Bhd, Samer & Co. Shipping
- eDelivery conformance tests: Axway 1.15, Eufex Deutschland GmbH request for AS4 conformance test (product is eConnect Europe)
- Eufex Deutschland GmbH asked to have a customised version of the SUT controller: after discussion, decision was taken that this will not be done
- Peppol test onboarding procedure – help provided by Peppol support
- Questions from users: Domibus (questions on setting alerts, issue with message resend functionality in Domibus, with REST API, Domibus on Docker, with Domibus 5.1.6 running on Tomcat), SML/SMP (SMP/SMK certificate update/renewal, participant registration, DNSSEC issues under investigation), PKI certificates (eJutice_ecodex, BRIS, UDB, OOTS, CiXP, EPREL, IRI, EUCEG, DECIDE, EUDAMED, ECDB, eTranslation), TAPAS (ICS2 connectivity test assistance requests (re-directed to the National service desks), onboarding request (forwarded to National Helpdesk), TAPAS message size limitation)
- There was a total of 788 emails in the FMB. We have removed 61 emails for SML Inconsistency, 45 alerts, and 137 emails from PKI CommisSign from the count, which makes a total of 545 received mails for the reporting month.
In December 2024, received mails were related to:
- eDelivery AS4 connectivity test: Euro Information, Appfuxion Consulting Sdn. Bhd, Samer & Co. Shipping
- eDelivery conformance tests: Axway 1.15, Eufex Deutschland GmbH request for AS4 conformance test (product is eConnect Europe)
- DomiSML security vulnerability handled with DomiSML 4.3.1 released on 03/12
- Updated list of Peppol participants sent to Peppol – request from Peppol to send it twice a month instead of once a month
- Peppol test onboarding procedure – help provided by Peppol support
- Questions from users: Domibus (CRL issue and NullPointer Exception (on Domibus 5.1.6), Domibus and clustered deployments require external JMS broker (ActiveMQ), Domibus on Docker, SOAP UI project for Domibus MSH, Domibus security pentests, Domibus messaging broker component, etc.), SML/SMP (SMP/SMK certificate update/renewal, participant registration, DNSSEC issues under investigation), PKI certificates (DIGG, UDB, OOTS, CiXP, EPREL, IRI, EUCEG, DECIDE, PCN, EUDAMED, ECDB, ODR), TAPAS (ICS2 connectivity test assistance requests (re-directed to the National service desks), onboarding request forwarded to National Helpdesk), pull mode failures)
- There was a total of 635 emails in the FMB. We have removed 73 emails for SML Inconsistency, 70 alerts, and 110 emails from PKI CommisSign from the count, which makes a total of 383 received mails for the reporting month
PKI
Operations Management
SML – availability
The achieved availability for SML was within the target for the months of November and December.