Architecture Principles

1. Scale out not up

Logicaly Replicate/Partition Architecture Building Block rather than putting more “power” to a logicaly Centralized Architeture Building Block

To be feasibility tested for SML Building Block through Federated SML PoC.

MC Mandate

Supporting Characteristics:

Scalable

2. Connecting once (C1/C4) and reaching every end-user who wants to receive Peppol-business-documents.

architecture to find the meta-data to reach any individual end-user.

Need to define rules which ensure uniqueness of a logical identifier of the end-user, which can be as easily shared as an e-mail-address.

High

Supporting Characteristic:

3. DNS-zone should not grow beyond a specific number of entries

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Medium

Lookup and replication is then slower) and that a lookup from the APAC-region in a western-European DNS-zone is slower than in a APAC-region located zone.