Agenda

Presenter

Duration

Discussion

Technical Reviews of BB specs

Steve Conrad

10 minutes

Update on review process:

• UI/UX - https://app.gitbook.com/o/pxmRWOPoaU8fUAbbcrus/s/Xygp83qW0E147CCaqsI0/ - Review complete and issues created

• eSignature - https://app.gitbook.com/o/pxmRWOPoaU8fUAbbcrus/s/ZpypLvJhKezO3prCNVTS/ - Aare Laponin. Review Complete and issues created

• eMarketplace - https://app.gitbook.com/o/pxmRWOPoaU8fUAbbcrus/s/PUIGDILlDRSOB6K47k6e/ - Aare Laponin. Review Complete and issues created

  • Note: Arch team has questions on the scope of this BB. Taylor to raise in eMarketplace Slack channel.

• GIS - https://app.gitbook.com/o/pxmRWOPoaU8fUAbbcrus/s/hkgz6Ka97bI1OCzGXUgW/ - Review done and issues completed

• Cloud Infrastructure will not be part of Wave 3 and Sept. release

Wes to review Wave 3 BBs to ensure that they are aligned to the template.

Ramkumar to work with Wave 3 teams to get complete list of contributors.

Steve Conrad - Set up meeting with eMarketplace so that we can articulate the current and future scope, as well as what procurement functionality should be included (either current or future)

Specific question for Architecture team:

PAERA Update

Aare Laponin PSRAMKUMAR

15 minutes

Update on changes to PAERA document and progress/next steps

Working draft:

https://onedrive.live.com/Edit.aspx?resid=7B252BA6CB083436!9551&wdPid=5887d621&authkey=!AC4bdYfdJIaKi8M

Ready for review and comment (Sections 1-3). Steve and Wes to review.

Need to decide where this lives for the upcoming release (GitBook, linked, PDF)?

• Put summary/overview in GitBook (in cross-cutting section) and then link out to full content (ie. PDF in GitHub)?

Capabilities/Service Blocks

Wes Brown

15 minutes

Review service block (capabilities) template

Need clear definition of distinction between building block and service block.

Future Topic - September

PSRAMKUMAR

Go through key learnings from Egypt deep dive and Kenya roadshow and map out how to address them in the architecture documents

• Do we need an adaptor Building Block?

• How do we align terminology with governments who may have a different view of particular BBs or services. Are there better ways to quickly agree on terms?

• IM questions

  • Large data transfers through IM. How do we secure access to those resources?

  • Using IM on intranets

  • How do we handle IM failures?

  • Sandbox uses auto-approval process. Document that this is not recommended.

Future Topic - October

Wes Brown

Identify experts that can do reviews of all Wave 1, 2, 3 BBs and map out process for external reviews

Future Topic

Steve Conrad PSRAMKUMAR

How to articulate the different levels/scopes of building blocks - foundational/DPI, functional, and possibly application (things like eMarketplace). This should be clearly articulated in GovStack documentation. Also articulate how service blocks fit in to this paradigm.

Identify BBs that are missing/needed and develop plan to address those new BBs - get feedback from Egypt and Kenya meetings

Provide clear examples of complete solutions that address a use case that show how they are composed of various BBs. Next release can focus more on service blocks and how to use GovStack to create solutions.

Future topic - Fall 2023

Manage Access Authorization to BB APIs

Jaume DUBOIS

30 minutes

• Types of accessors checked (human, back-end systems, apps or browser, robots, hardware, ..)

• Granularity of access control (Building block, module, API, single API service, single API service for specific tenant or data)

From Technical Committee Meeting:

BBs should not own RBAC - the calling applications are responsible for it. 

Are we using token based authorization within the request to BB?

How to get candidates bypass its own RBAC?

1. Superuser access to be given when merging with IM backend?

2. Or control to switch off existing RBAC in target BBs

3. option to have api token registered in IM at max permission level for specific member entities

4. come up with a concrete example for this case