1. e-CODEX Requirements II Discovery
BDXR,
2012/07/27

2. Different Communication Partners
Civil Law use cases:
Citizen-to-court
Through European e-Justice Portal / e-TrustEx as service provider
Criminal Law use cases:
Court-to-court
Higher security requirements
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3. Court-to-Court-Communication
Similar to PEPPOL, but easier:
Ultimate recipient (local) address is known
One gateway per country
Gateway to send to depends only on recipient country
DNS-type lookup of gateway is possible if
Logical address (“Recipient identifier”) has a part encoding the country (e.g. “domain name” part)
Logical address also encodes local recipient address
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4. Citizen-to-court communication
Different from PEPPOL
Gateway discovery is again the easy part:
End users know the country they want to send to
One gateway per country
Static configuration / DNS-Lookup
More diffucult is to find out which court to send to (end entity address)
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5. End Entity Addresses End Entity Addresses generally not known
Courts as recipients
Complex business logic to determine (most) competent court
depending on case type (civil/criminal), defendant’s residence, amount of claim, free choice, …
Citizens as recipients
Citizens initiate the communication, providing their reply-to address
Local address books usually not accessible
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6. European Court Atlas Long-term plan in the e-Justice working party
Central database of courts
“Replication” mechanism for national court databases
Some countries would have preferred a federated model
Not all countries have a local Court Atlas
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7. Short-term plan e-CODEX
Simplified business logic (only a small number of courts participate)
Discovery through web service calls?
Discovery through business messages?
Can DNS based lookup be applied here?
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8. Capabilities
Capabilities vary between countries and sometimes even between courts:
Need for pre-payment of court fees
File sizes supported between gateway and ultimate recipient
(Legally) accepted file sizes
Supported claim type:
Again related to location discovery
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9. Thank you for your attention!
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