Date: 2024-01-18

Time: 08:30-09:30 CET

Type of meeting: MS Teams

Participants and absents


Chair

Elly Stinchcombe (Unlicensed) as eDelivery Community Leader


Elected members (with voting right)

Bård Langöy (Pagero)

Risto Collanus (Visma)

Iacopo.Arduini@regione.emilia-romagna.it (Emilia Romagna)

Arun Kumar Sharma (Basware) (apologies received)


Guests (without voting right)

Philip Helger (OpenPeppol OO)

Klaus Vilstrup (OpenPeppol OO) (apologies received)


Agenda

  1. News from the Peppol Network
  2. Open Tasks
  3. New Tickets
  4. Other

Approval of Minutes

eDelivery CMB meeting 2023-12-21

Status: approved

Information/Discussion items

  1. Organisational topics
    1. Idea on eDEC CMB members: one PA member would be considered positive
    2. Elly only available for another 3 month (leaving on April 19th, 2024 - last eDEC CMB on April 11th)
      1. Crosscheck with OO on how to do a smooth handover until the GA - potentially an interim from ATO
  2.  News
    1. News from the Peppol Network
      1. None so far this year
      2. Trond (Visma; APPCMB member) left the company by end of 2023 - was stepping down from the CMB position
      3. NPA performed a security check amongst NL Service Providers and found some issues
      4. SML impact on the beginning of January - discussed in the SPC meeting January 9th
      5. Next MC++ on Jan 29th
    2. Peppol - EESPA/GENA consolidation
      1. No update
    3. MLA work group (for MLS)
      1. No update
    4. Reporting
      1. Reporting data collection started on January 1st - country code is missing for some SP
      2. Accidentally a Reporting Email with a reminder to report in January was sent - bug in the OpenPeppol solution
    5. Service Provider Identification Scheme
      1. No update
    6. SMP 2.0.0
      1. Next Meeting Jan 25th, 16:00 to 17:30 CET
  3. Open Tasks Philip Helger
    1. Finalize TICC-19
      1. Add hint on upcoming SMP 2.0 specification
    2. Create a ticket to create a Guideline on the tasks of an Access Point solution
  4. Activities for this year
    1. Activities for 2024 not yet completely discussed and decided
    2. Published
      1. Progress alignment with change and release management based on new agreement change processes
      2. Continue Peppol specification upgrade based on latest version of underlying standard e.g., OASIS
      3. Commence work on future of SML – defining business requirements followed by solution implementation in due course
      4. Documentation of Peppol eDelivery Network Architecture
      5. Ensure and maintain safe & secure operation over Peppol eDelivery Network
    3. Resource problem is still pressing
    4. Ad activity 2: Discussion on the comparison of new and existing standards should be done in a less "ad hoc way"
      1. Start documenting findings in a more structured way
    5. Ad activity 3: Brainstorming for Peppol Architecure v2 has been started
      1. Check if a restricted Confluence page can be used instead
      2. Crosscheck with the long term tasks
  5. Next meeting(s)
    1. Thursday February 1st, and February 15th 8:30 to 10:30 CET are cancelled
    2. Next meeting: Thursday February 8th, 8:30 to 10:30 CET - followed by Feb 29th

SPC relevant

New tasks and Issues (from last meeting)

Issues: https://openpeppol.atlassian.net/issues/?filter=10258


    1. Information: Make reporting Specification repository on GitHub public
    2. Decision: Agreed
    3. Update: Done
    1. Information: error corrections and improvements to the SBDH specification
    2. Update: none
    1. Information: deprecate and remove old DE specific document type
    2. Update: none
    1. Information: extract Business Card specification from Peppol Directory specification
    2. Update: none

    1. Suggestion on C4 Country Code
    2. Decision: Wait for full CMB group participation
    1. Proposal to make mandatoriness of Directory API in SMP specification more clear
    2. Update: none
    3. Decision: OO to clarify on the mandatory use of Businees Cards.
    1. Information: AS4 inconclusive specification on signing of AS4 Error messages
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Elly Stinchcombe (Unlicensed)
    1. Update: Impact Analysis was provided
    2. Update: All Peppl SP support BC format v3 - okay to remove v1 and v2 from the published list of XSDs
    3. Responsible: PH
    1. Information: Request to improve consistency in AS4 error handling
    2. Update: none
    1. Information: Peppol Participant (Corner 4) served by more than one Access Point
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: Request to add Participant Identifier scheme 0218
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: update the SMP digest algorithms from SHA-1 to SHA-256
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: Start definining potential actions for removing identifiers in the Code List States Document. Start with TICC-228
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information; Its about a wording issue in the Peppol Envelope Policy (SBDH)
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Elly Stinchcombe (Unlicensed)
    1. Information: New SMP API proposal (migration code exchange)
    1. Information: New SMP API proposal (health check)
    1. Information: New SMP API proposal (identify)
    1. Information: Collection issue: Peppol, EESPA, BPC
    1. Information: Clarify case sensitivity of Peppol Seat ID
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: Number of retries on an AS4 level
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: Information about caching of SMP results for usage in a Peppol AP is missing
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: Review of new/updated OASIS specifications
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Elly Stinchcombe (Unlicensed)
    1. Information: Allow 0080 as new Participant Identifier scheme
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Elly Stinchcombe (Unlicensed)
    1. Information: Align Participant Identifier Scheme Code lists of PoAC and eDEC
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: The term "Subject Unique Identifier" in the Peppol SMP specification 1.1.0 requires clarification, as this certificate field is not present in the Peppol certificates.
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: Have a separate participant identifier prefix for testing purposes.
    2. Update: none
    1. Information: regarding joint information on news and noteworthy
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: Clarification on the words "custom validation" in the AS4 profile was sought.
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: https for SMP
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: (Whitepaper) Enforce people to use SMK for testing?
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: add a Schematron for verifying the AS4 headers. Updates directly in the issue.
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: (Whitepaper) Creation of the Whitepaper.
    2. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: (Whitepaper)
    2. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: (Whitepaper)
    2. Responsible: Philip Helger
    1. Information: Information on how to determine and handle inactive SMP providers
    2. Update: work in progress
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger

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