2022-05-11

Introduction to the X-Road Community Expert Group.

Deep dive into the X-Road development roadmap 2022.

Version 7.1.0

• Show statuses of different encryption configuration options in the Security Server UI.
  • Encryption enabled / disabled.
• Make the Security Server UI more modular so that elements that are not needed are inactive.
• Minor enhancements and bug fixes based on user feedback.

Version 7.2.0

• New user interface provides improved user experience (UX) for Central Server administrators.
  • Management requests (list / filter), members (list / details).
• Common maintenance and configuration tasks can be automated using the Central Server administrator API.
• Other planned changes to the Central Server functionality:
  • Support declining or approving management requests without having to create a complementary request on the Central Server.
    • Comment: Having only a single management requests view with filtering capabilities seems like a good solution. In that way there's no need to have separate management request views under Member and Security Server details.
  • Use secure connection (HTTPS) for distributing global configuration.
    • Comment: Both HTTP and HTTPS endpoints must be available on the new Central Server for backwards compatibility.
  • Use more secure certificate hashing algorithm instead of SHA-1, e.g., SHA-256.
  • Add/remove Central Server cluster nodes without sending a new configuration anchor.

  • Rotate Central Server sign keys without sending a new configuration anchor.

  • Support running management services and the Central Server on separate hosts.
• Support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

• Remove support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Other development and research items

• The Message Room concept PoC projects in Estonia and Finland.
  
  • More information about the Message Room concept:
    • Message Room use case study
    • Synchronous or asynchronous messaging?
    • The Message Room concept implementation alternatives
    • The Message Room concept in practise
  • Also, NIIS is collaborating with the GovStack initiative regarding the technical implementation of the Message Room concept.
• "Rebooting Trust in X-Road" research project in collaboration with the University of Tartu.
  • The aim of the project is to study how decentralized trust models could be applied to X-Road.
• Future of MISP2 - a user study on requirements for MISP3 or a new tool replacing MISP2.

No open topics.

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