X-Road

Estonian Information Systems’s Authority Rävala 5, 15169 Tallinn, Estonia

The Problemlate 1990s

– Many information systems– Very little paperwork in the back office– A lot of paperwork for citizens

early 2000– many projects for interconnecting information

system– security issues discussed

The General Architecture●Distributed architecture (no SPOF)●Properties – data integrity, authenticity and authentication, encryption, reliable, verifiable, scalability and availability ●Neutral – using X-road must not change systems FURPS settings level●Two-level authorization model●Loosely coupled services - transparent to data models, database/system management technologies and usage patterns●XML-based

Governmentinformation

systems

Portals citizens

enterpreneurscivil servants

X-Road centre

RIHA

EstonianPKI

infrastructure

InternetX-Road

common component

custom component

Arhitecture of State IS

ArchitectureTechnology Layer Components

WSDLUDDI

Services Parential benefitMy vehiclesMy penalties

SOAP(XML RPC)

LDAP…

Data trafficX-road

Security serverCentral server

MISPCitizen portal

Java.NET

PythonSAP

Information systems

Traffic registerPopulation registerPassports register

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X-Road Versions

Version 1.0 – 2001. XML-RPCVersion 2.0 – 2002. SOAP RPC/encodedVersion 3.0 – 2004. Synchronous servicesVersion 4.0 – 2006. Security update Version 5.0 – 2010. SOAP document/literal wrapped(Version 6.0 – 2014? Federation, External trust service providers)

The Initial Years

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Results

● X-Road is a long step of moving towards the Information Society

● X-Road includes Estonian and European best practice in the using of new technologies

● X-Road provides e-Services to citizens, to civil servants and to enterpreneurs

Future?

Continuous improvement... version 6, 7...It is not about technology – it is the way of thinking!

Thank You!Questions?