1. 2016.3 action status & planning
Michael Lutz
44th MIG-T meeting, Ispra
30-31 October 2017

2. Validator usage & feedback
Considerable interest since launch of release 1.0
700+ tests in the past week
User feedback is coming in
Importance of helpdesk

3. 2016.3 sub-group nominations
14 experts
from 10 MS: ES, RO, NL, IT, PT, FI, SE, DE, FR, UK
Expertise
9x MD
9x NS
4x Data

4. Support contracts 3 contracts planned Scope helpdesk support, FAQ
MD, NS ATS/ETS development and maintenance, ETF maintenance and evolution, helpdesk
Annex I ATS/ETS maintenance, Annex II+III ATS/ETS development
Kick-off planned in December 2017
Workshop(s) with sub-group in early 2018

5. Options for JRC deployment
Current limitations to 4 concurrent users
Started investigations of a possible deployment in EC cloud
Further development could investigate queuing of requests or asynchronous requests
Agreement needed on scope of JRC instance
central service that can be operationally used by all INSPIRE implementers
reference implementation that should not be used in an operational setting + local deployments of the validation software