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X-Road Overview

X-Road Overview

EduCloud Alliance

March 24, 2014
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  1. The Problem late 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
  2. 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
  3. Government information systems Portals citizens enterpreneurs civil servants X-Road centre

    RIHA Estonian PKI infrastructure Internet X-Road common component custom component Arhitecture of state IS
  4. Architecture Technology Layer Components WSDL UDDI Services Parential benefit My

    vehicles My penalties SOAP (XML RPC) LDAP … Data traffic X-road Security server Central server MISP Citizen portal Java .NET Python SAP Information systems Traffic register Population register Passports register …
  5. X-Road versions Version 1.0 – 2001. XML-RPC Version 2.0 –

    2002. SOAP RPC/encoded Version 3.0 – 2004. Asyncronous services Version 4.0 – 2006. Secuirty update Version 5.0 – 2010. SOAP document/litteral wrapped (Version 6.0 – 2014? Federation)
  6. 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 0 5 10 15 20

    25 30 35 40 45 0,6 7,8 13,5 29,7 42,7 Millions of requests The initial years
  7. 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

    2013 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 0,6 7,8 13,5 29,7 42,7 74,0 98,1 218,9 227,1 254,1 287,2 Millions of requests All The Years
  8. All The Years (Monthly) 1 2 3 4 5 6

    7 8 9 10 11 12 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Month Number of requests in Millions
  9. 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
  10. Future? Continuous improvement... version 6, 7... It is not about

    technology – it is the way of thinking! Thank You! Questions?