Conclusions and major achievements of initial iteration

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Intermediate report providing preliminary conclusions.

Major achievements:

• Developed international infrastructure for cross-border exchange of company evidence by all DBA partners, by deploying and integration DE4A common components to business registers and service providers
• Developed international infrastructure for croon-border authorization and authentication but most DBA Member Status, using eIDAS pilot nodes
• Collected proof of proper operation of the cross border infrastructure for authentication, authorization and evidence exchange
• Established an internationally supported evidence definition, for exchange of company-information between business registers and service providers.
• Established design, architecture and assessment of infrastructure for cross border subscription and notification on company events, to be piloted in 2nd iteration.

Project status:

• facing challenges of pandemic (priorities, resource availability), external events (acute vulnerabilities) and challenges on national level (implementation requires involvement of multiple organizations per Member State, complicating coordination and alignment). Occasionally leading to DBA partners terminating their involvement.
• 5 DE/DO combinations finishing preparation for piloting by establishing secure communication. Others later in Q1/
• Established all designs in order to start development of infrastructure for 2nd iteration.
• Pilot runs behind schedule due to reasons mentioned above. Scheduled to start in February 2022.

Main lessons learned until now:

• DE4A common components to support SDG have proven to be deployable and can be integrated to national infrastructures. Alle DBA partners managed to do so.
• Member States establish their own maximum velocity for implementing the OOP TS, and velocities differ.
• Applying a step-by-step approach for implementing the SDG infrastructure, increasing complexity gradually, has proven to aid with focus and managing the implementation.
• Establishing an implementation project on Member State level, involving necessary competent authorities and setting priority over all these authorities, will ease the implementation of the SDG in Member States.
• Member States need to establish a notified eID and eIDAS infrastructure before, or at the same time of implementing the SDG infrastructure.

This is a preliminary conclusion. The next deliverable (final report) will provide final conclusions, based on all executed cases with all DE/DO combinations and all patters / power validation methods that have been executed until Q3 2022. But if things are only piloted once, than these are final onclusiions. But in DBA probably limited.