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Dear ebXML community,
I have once in a while been posting about PEPPOL (Pan European
Public Procurement Online). To put it shortly: It is a 30 million Euro
project with participation from 14 countries (with the recent
enlargement). The project started May 2008 and will end in November
2011. Our goal is to make it possible for the 23 million SME's in
Europe to exchange business documents with any public sector
organization in the EU. Our focus is on eProcurement (pre-award and
post-award) however - our infrastructure is content neutral and the
European focus is just a matter priority for the sponsors (The European
Commission).
The model that we are promoting is basically a four corner
service provider model. This implies that an SME should connect to the
infrastructure through a service provider and that all service
providers are connected to each other through the PEPPOL
infrastructure. The interconnection between service providers is
regulated by a mulitlateral peering agreement and trust between service
providers is ensured through the issuance of a certificate to compliant
service providers.
So why is this relevant to the ebXML community?
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The idea behind the infrastructure is also that different
transport protocols can be used. The first transport that we have
introduced is the START specification (
Secure
Trusted Asynchronous Reliable Transport (START) 0.9) but any
transport protocol could be used by service providers (e.g. ebMS or
even a proprietary protocol).
I believe that there is an opportunity for the ebXML community
to piggyback on the trust set-up and the governance set-up that we are
implementing as part of PEPPOL. I would therefore like to invite all
interested service providers and middleware suppliers from the ebXML
community to our next conference in Copenhagen on October 21th - 23nd.
Participation is free of charge.
Who should attend?
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You should attend if you have an interest in supporting
post-award processes and fall into one of the following categories:
· Service provider (E.g. Bank, VAN, eProcurement
solution provider),
· Provider of ERP and business software
· Provider of Middleware solutions
· Government organization
· Large private companies with many cross-border
transactions
Would you like to exhibit or co-sponsor?
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The conference is co-sponsored by OASIS. If you would like to
exhibit at the conference and become a co-sponsor please contact Jane
Harnad from OASIS (
jane.harnad@oasis-open.org).
The conference:
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In overview the conference is structured in the following way:
* PEPPOL executive day - Wednesday October 21st
* PEPPOL architecture day - Thursday October 22nd
* PEPPOL Middleware demonstrations and Programmers
"Hands-on" - Friday October 23rd
More information:
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Please forward this invitation to your colleagues and relevant
public and private sector organizations in your country.
I look forward to welcoming you in Copenhagen