eDelivery CMB meeting 2023-11-09 minutes

Owned by Philip Helger
Nov 09, 2023
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Date: 2023-11-09

Time: 08:30-10:30 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 (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 2023-09-28

Status: approved

Information/Discussion items

  1. Organisational topics
    1. Please send apologies ahead of time if you are not able to join
  2.  News
    1. News from the Peppol network
      1. GA16 was yesterday
      2. Next CC meeting on November 13th
      3. Next MC++ meeting on November 27th
      4. Next SPC meeting on December 5th - Elly can't participate
    2. Reporting
      1. Reporting team created an updated Schematron for publication. See TICC-296
      2. Reporting specification requires immediate update
      3. Reporting Beta testing is still running and a third round (=month) will be performed
    3. MLS work group
      1. MLS will be between C2 and C3 (compared to MLR being between C1 and C4) → implies mandatory receiving capabilities of MLS for Service Providers in the future (details to be worked out)
    4. Peppol - EESPA consolidation
      1. EESPA is renamed to "GENA" (Global Exchange Network Association)
      2. EESPA already started the consolidation process, OpenPeppol status is unknown to this group (Lefteris and Klaus? being the participants)
    5. SMP 1.3.0
      1. Commenting period ended on October 26th, 2023
      2. One comment sheet was received - no comments on the specification at all
    6. SMP 2.0.0
      1. Next work group meeting following this meeting
      2. Goal is to have a public review candidate SMP 2.0 specification by the end of the year
    7. Nemhandel network in Denmark
      1. Uses the Peppol Network in a non-compliant way (~11K participants today)
        1. Uses the Peppol SML specification
        2. Uses the Peppol SMP specification
        3. Uses a separate AS4 profile
        4. Uses a different AP PKI
        5. Uses only OIOUBL document types
  3. Open Tasks Philip Helger
    1. SMP 1.3.0
      1. Create a migration plan for SMP 1.3.0 specification (gradual implementation on SMP side should work, no big bang)
        1. 6 month implementation time for SMP servers
        2. SMP servers are able to implement the feature immediately
      2. Publish final version; target date asap
      3. Provide an internal plan how to monitor SMP 1.3.0 implementation progress (for OO based on Peppol Analytics)
      4. News items for email, website and SPC meeting needed
    2. PPFUOI 4.2.0
      1. Create an impact analysis on PPFUOI 4.2.0
    3. Finalize TICC-19
      1. Add hint on upcoming SMP 2.0 specification
    4. Codelists
      1. Version 8.7 nearly ready for release - just waiting for TICC-297 details
  4. Activities for this year
    1. 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 
    2. Resource problem is still pressing
    3. 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
    4. 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
    1. Thursday November 23th, 8:30 to 10:30 CET

SPC relevant

  • SMP 1.3.0 update
  • Codelist v8.7 update
  • Very vague SMP 2.0.0 information
  • Reporting update (Schematron focus)

New tasks and Issues (from last meeting)

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


  1. TICC-297 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. -
    2. Decision: Accepted
  2. TICC-296 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. -
    2. Decision: Accepted
  3. TICC-295 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. -
    2. Decision: Minor change and accepted
  4. TICC-292 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Fix removal date of 9956 in a hotfix release to 2024-01-01
    2. Decision: Agreed to be changed
  5. TICC-286 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Suggestion on C4 Country Code
    2. Decision: Wait for full CMB group participation
  6. TICC-285 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Proposal to make mandatoriness of Directory API in SMP specification more clear
    2. Handling: divide it in two: a policy issue and how Business Card is presented in the Reporting Guideline. 
    3. Decision: OO to clarify on the mandatory use of Businees Cards.
  7. TICC-284 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: AS4 inconclusive specification on signing of AS4 Error messages
    2. Decision: AS4 Error Messages should be signed. A way forward was sketched
    3. Responsible: Elly Stinchcombe (Unlicensed)
  8. TICC-282 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Deprecate Business Card formats v1 and v2 and requrest to support only v3
    2. Decision: RFC accepted
    3. Responsible: PH
  9. TICC-269 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Request to improve consistency in AS4 error handling
    2. Update: none
  10. TICC-263 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Peppol Participant (Corner 4) served by more than one Access Point
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  11. TICC-259 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Request to add Participant Identifier scheme 0218
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  12. TICC-246 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: update the SMP digest algorithms from SHA-1 to SHA-256
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  13. TICC-235 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    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
  14. TICC-233 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information; Its about a wording issue in the Peppol Envelope Policy (SBDH)
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Elly Stinchcombe (Unlicensed)
  15. TICC-226 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: New SMP API proposal (migration code exchange)
  16. TICC-225 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: New SMP API proposal (health check)
  17. TICC-224 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: New SMP API proposal (identify)
  18. TICC-223 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Collection issue: Peppol, EESPA, BPC
  19. TICC-218 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Clarify case sensitivity of Peppol Seat ID
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  20. TICC-206 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Number of retries on an AS4 level
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  21. TICC-203 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Please add SHA256 XMLsig to Peppol-SMP specs because Java17-security change
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  22. TICC-202 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Information about caching of SMP results for usage in a Peppol AP is missing
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  23. TICC-201 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Review of new/updated OASIS specifications
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Elly Stinchcombe (Unlicensed)
  24. TICC-187 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Allow 0080 as new Participant Identifier scheme
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Elly Stinchcombe (Unlicensed)
  25. TICC-184 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Align Participant Identifier Scheme Code lists of PoAC and eDEC
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  26. TICC-174 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    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
  27. TICC-168 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Have a separate participant identifier prefix for testing purposes.
    2. Update: none
  28. TICC-167 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: regarding joint information on news and noteworthy
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  29. TICC-166 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: Clarification on the words "custom validation" in the AS4 profile was sought.
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  30. TICC-153 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: https for SMP
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  31. TICC-151 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: (Whitepaper) Enforce people to use SMK for testing?
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  32. TICC-149 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: add a Schematron for verifying the AS4 headers. Updates directly in the issue.
    2. Update: none
    3. Responsible: Philip Helger
  33. TICC-146 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: (Whitepaper) Creation of the Whitepaper.
    2. Responsible: Philip Helger
  34. TICC-142 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: (Whitepaper)
    2. Responsible: Philip Helger
  35. TICC-140 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    1. Information: (Whitepaper)
    2. Responsible: Philip Helger
  36. TICC-19 - Getting issue details... STATUS
    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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