Re: [ebxml-dev] Call for participation - PEPPOL ArchitectureConference -

[Farrukh Najmi <farrukh@wellfleetsoftware.com>]

Hi Mikkel,

Congratulations on the PEPPOL work and best wishes for the PEPPOL 
Architecture conference.
Please see inline below for some questions. Thanks and happy holidays to 
all.

Mikkel Hippe Brun wrote:
> Hello ebxml community,
>
> One of the largest European eBusiness transport infrastructure 
> projects is underway. It is the PEPPOL pilot (Pan-European Public 
> eProcurement On-Line). We are building an infrastructure that will 
> allow individual companies as well as existing national and regional 
> eBusiness frameworks and VAN's to exchange electronic business 
> documents. The heart of infrastructure is a hierarchy of eBusiness 
> registries. 

According to the web site 
<http://www.peppolinfrastructure.com/architectureconferencev12009> :

"

    * Registry Architecture
          o Hierarchy of registries
          o UDDI with a RESTful interface

"

Naturally, I am a little confused since I was expecting ebXML RegRep as 
the registry standard. AFAIK, UDDI does not provide a RESTFul interface 
but ebXML RegRep 4 does.

I assume there is a mistake somewhere. Perhaps the web site meant to say 
ebXML RegRep and accidentally said UDDI. Or perhaps, you meant to post 
this message to the uddi-dev list and accidentally posted to ebxml-dev list.

Can you please clarify this issue. Also is there any detailed 
description of the hierarchical registry aspects of the architecture 
somewhere that you can point me to.

Thanks again.

> Final decisions on transport profiles for the pilot have not been 
> made, but the infrastructure will allow any transport profile 
> (including ebms) to be used. We will supply you the governance 
> mechanism and the registry infrastructure. We are presenting our 
> proposed architecture at the end of January in Copenhagen Denmark. 
> Come to Denmark and give us feedback and lets together create a viral 
> infrastructure. See the call for participation below and consider 
> attending. Its a free two day event but seats are limited.
>
> All the best wishes for the holiday season.
>
> Mikkel Hippe Brun
> Danish National IT and Telecom Agency
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> The PEPPOL Architecture Conference 2009 is your chance to "kick tires" 
> at the PEPPOL pilot (Pan-European Public eProcurement On-Line). The 
> objective of the PEPPOL project is to set up a pan-European pilot 
> solution that, conjointly with existing national solutions, 
> facilitates EU-wide interoperable public eProcurement.
>
> The vision of the PEPPOL project is that any company and in particular 
> SMEs in the EU can communicate electronically with any European 
> governmental institution for the entire procurement process. 
> Furthermore - the exchange of business documents should be as easy as 
> sending emails.
>
> It is our goal that the PEPPOL infrastructure will be rolled out in 
> all member states after a successful pilot. The project will be 9 
> months old at the conference and important decisions regarding the 
> technical architecture as well as the business models supported are 
> about to be made. If your organization is not part of PEPPOL - this 
> conference is your chance to learn more about the business 
> opportunities and to influence our direction. So please come to 
> Copenhagen to kick the tires of PEPPOL!
>
> *Day 1 will focus on the business needs *for establishing the PEPPOL 
> infrastructure, its governance, main components and their 
> relationship. Discussions are aimed at decision makers in public and 
> private sector responsible for establishing technical infrastructures 
> to support efficient and interoperable eProcurement solutions.
>
> *Day 2 will focus on implementing the PEPPOL infrastructure*, the 
> technical architecture of the PEPPOL infrastructure and the technical 
> content of the architecture components. Discussions will be organized 
> in a workshop manner in order to review and facilitate discussion and 
> feedback on the proposed architecture and its components.
>
> The conference is hosted by The Danish National IT and Telecom Agency 
> and is offered free of charge. There are however a limited number of 
> free places which are reserved for solution and platform providers, 
> public sector entities, PEPPOL consortium members, Service providers 
> and related EU initiatives. We reserve the right to allocate places 
> and to refuse applications once the number of complimentary places has 
> been exceeded.
>
> For more information about the PEPPOL project see: http://www.peppol.eu
>
> For more information about the conference, the program and 
> registration see: 
> http://www.peppolinfrastructure.com/architectureconferencev12009
>
> Observe that the conference is co-located with the 10 th meeting of 
> CEN/ISSS Workshop on "Business Interoperability Interfaces on public 
> procurement in Europe" - WS/BII. This workshop takes place from 
> January 26th-28th. See http://www.en.ds.dk/bii
>


-- 
Regards,
Farrukh Najmi

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