COMMUNITIES AND WORK GROUPS
Click on the tabs below to find out more about each of the stakeholder communities, together with their operational plans for the current year and their associated Work Groups. Information about the current community and work group leaders and members can be found on the WHO-IS-WHO page
Stakeholder Communities
Domain Communities
Work Groups
Stakeholder Communities
There are three stakeholder communities
- End User Community (EUC)
- Service Provider Community (SPC)
- Peppol Authority Community (PAC)
- a community leader
- representatives to cross-community bodies
Current stakeholder community initiatives
Key initiatives for 2022 – End User Community (EUC)
- Continue to encourage end user interest in specific subjects, such as
- billing
- ordering
- use of identifiers
- Other business documents
- Have “deep dives” into topics of special interest for the end users
- Continue to support the end users with day-to-day practical issues they raise
- Continue to spread practical advice on how Peppol can benefit a day-to-day business for the end user regardless of being private or public entities
- Continue to support adoption of Peppol, especially for private companies
- Continue to support Cross Community initiatives such as International Invoicing and Continuous Transaction Controls
Key initiatives for 2022 – Service Provider Community (SPC)
- Key objective – Provide value to the members by creating the base to acquire important information
and keep high quality discussions
- Regular MC updates of membership and PA development
- Emphasize the importance of different market news and country news to support international development of our members
- Maintain the good quality meeting content
- Specific actions:
-
- Improve the quality of Confluence page – to be more proactive
- Ensure better onboarding of new service providers
- Create a group with representatives from different jurisdictions
- Support members with needed information on market developments (CTC, EESPA etc)
- Encourage the members to execute kick-off groups for specific topics
- Continue support of implementation of the new agreements
Key initiatives for 2022 – Peppol Authority Community (PAC)
- Key objectives:
- Improving alignment, cooperation and knowledge sharing amongst the Peppol Authorities
- Work together on specific topics in order to advise or facilitate OpenPeppol in her strategy for the (near) future
- Improve the security of the Peppol Network
- Specific actions:
- Run fortnightly online roundtable meetings
- Continue support of implementation of the new agreements
- Contribute to Peppol communication and branding, increasing alignment/reuse with PA communications
Domain Communities
There are four domain communities
- Peppol Network Community (eDeC)
- Post Award Community (PoAC)
- Pre Award Community (PrAC)
- CTC Community (CTCC)
Service Provider members of OpenPeppol must join eDeC. Additionally, Post Award Service Providers must also join PoAC and Pre Award Service Provider members must also join PrAC.
Peppol Authority members of OpenPeppol must join eDeC and may optionally join PrAC and/or PoAC.
End User members of OpenPeppol may optionally join any domain community.
Community participation | End Users | Service Providers | Peppol Authorities |
| Peppol Network | optional | required | required |
| Post Award | optional | required as relevant | optional |
| Pre Award | optional | required as relevant | optional |
| CTC | optional | optional | optional |
Except for the newly formed CTCC, each domain community has a Change Management Board (CMB), which is chaired by the domain community leader. The CMBs determine the annual workplan for their community and prioritise change requests.
The members of each domain community formally elect:
- a community leader
- representatives to their Change Management Board
- representatives to cross-community bodies
Current domain community initiatives
Key initiatives for 2022 – Peppol Network Community (eDeC)
- Continue improvements to the change release process in line with the new agreement change processes including communication of change candidates
- Investigate possible upgrades of Peppol specifications taking into account newer versions of underlying standards from Oasis, such as SMP and XHE
- Improvements to the security and resilience of the Peppol network
- Continue support for International Invoicing and Continuous Transaction Control
Key initiatives for 2022 – Post Award Community (PoAC)
- Continue to improve the Peppol BIS messages
- Strengthening stability and improve the functionality
- Review the use of business and message responses in the network
- Mandatory or optional use
- Review the use of country specific rules
- Which country identifiers to use
- Rules on sender and receiver data
- Support the Proof of Concept of the PINT proposition
- Collaborate with e-DEC and the Stakeholder Communities
- Deliver new releases
- May and November
- Implement the new agreements
- Implement the new development and release process
- Survey the communities to drive CMB decisions
- Align the versioning of the specifications
Key initiatives for 2022 – Pre Award Community (PrAC)
- eTendering workgroup
- Development
- Guideline for Open Procedure
- New profile: eTendering Message Response
- New profile: Unsubscribe to procedure
- New profile: Invitation to Tender
- Guideline for Restricted Procedure
- New profile: Contracting, with coordination with the work on pre-award Catalogue Request and ESPD 3.0
- Deliver May & November releases
- Development
- ESPD v3 BIS workgroup
- Assessment of the ESPD BIS proposal from INTERPROC CEF funded action to steer towards a formal Peppol ESPD BIS.
- Development of Peppol ESPD 3.0 BIS based on ESPD EDM.
- Align the development and release process with the new tools for BIS creation (PDK)
Key initiatives for 2022 – CTC Community (CTCC)
- contribute to market development activities and supporting the recruitment of new Peppol Authorities and, more generally, the expansion of Peppol into new countries and territories where CTC is a relevant priority for the government
- improve, enhance, and further develop the existing playground environment
- further refine and develop technical aspects of the Decentralised Peppol CTC model, such as testing IRM (pending work in PoAC), TDD specifications and CTC SP certification requirements
- subject to engagement of relevant stakeholders and resources in the Association, further refine and develop additional aspects of the Peppol CTC model, such as cross-border, B2C and Centralised clearance scenarios
- contribute to the work of other communities, investigating whether an increased number of tax codes in Peppol BIS (and later PINT) needs to be introduced to improve granularity from TA perspective
Work Groups
Work Groups
OpenPeppol establishes formal work groups to manage specific initiatives to ensure the development and sustainability of the Peppol specifications and network.
Work groups are run by a work group leader and populated by volunteer representatives of OpenPeppol members. Work group members commit to actively participate in the discussions and activities of the group, supporting the work group leader in completing the agreed deliverables.
Work groups may be established at an organisational level or within stakeholder and domain communities. Each work group has a documented mandate, setting out the areas of responsibility and the expected deliverables.
Organisational-level work groups
- Peppol Agreement Revision
- Peppol Activity Reporting
Community-level work groups
Post Award work groups
- International Invoicing
- Core Invoice Response
- Peppol BIS Development
- Peppol Test Team
Pre Award work groups
- eTendering
- ESPD
- Qualification
- eForms/publishing
Join a Community or Work Group
Contact the Community Leader or Work Group Leader – details can be found under “who-is-who”.
There are three stakeholder communities
- End User Community (EUC)
- Service Provider Community (SPC)
- Peppol Authority Community (PAC)
- a community leader
- representatives to cross-community bodies
Current stakeholder community initiatives
Key initiatives for 2022 – End User Community (EUC)
- Continue to encourage end user interest in specific subjects, such as
- billing
- ordering
- use of identifiers
- Other business documents
- Have “deep dives” into topics of special interest for the end users
- Continue to support the end users with day-to-day practical issues they raise
- Continue to spread practical advice on how Peppol can benefit a day-to-day business for the end user regardless of being private or public entities
- Continue to support adoption of Peppol, especially for private companies
- Continue to support Cross Community initiatives such as International Invoicing and Continuous Transaction Controls
Key initiatives for 2022 – Service Provider Community (SPC)
- Key objective – Provide value to the members by creating the base to acquire important information
and keep high quality discussions
- Regular MC updates of membership and PA development
- Emphasize the importance of different market news and country news to support international development of our members
- Maintain the good quality meeting content
- Specific actions:
-
- Improve the quality of Confluence page – to be more proactive
- Ensure better onboarding of new service providers
- Create a group with representatives from different jurisdictions
- Support members with needed information on market developments (CTC, EESPA etc)
- Encourage the members to execute kick-off groups for specific topics
- Continue support of implementation of the new agreements
Key initiatives for 2022 – Peppol Authority Community (PAC)
- Key objectives:
- Improving alignment, cooperation and knowledge sharing amongst the Peppol Authorities
- Work together on specific topics in order to advise or facilitate OpenPeppol in her strategy for the (near) future
- Improve the security of the Peppol Network
- Specific actions:
- Run fortnightly online roundtable meetings
- Continue support of implementation of the new agreements
- Contribute to Peppol communication and branding, increasing alignment/reuse with PA communications
There are four domain communities
- Peppol Network Community (eDeC)
- Post Award Community (PoAC)
- Pre Award Community (PrAC)
- CTC Community (CTCC)
Service Provider members of OpenPeppol must join eDeC. Additionally, Post Award Service Providers must also join PoAC and Pre Award Service Provider members must also join PrAC.
Peppol Authority members of OpenPeppol must join eDeC and may optionally join PrAC and/or PoAC.
End User members of OpenPeppol may optionally join any domain community.
Community participation | End Users | Service Providers | Peppol Authorities |
| Peppol Network | optional | required | required |
| Post Award | optional | required as relevant | optional |
| Pre Award | optional | required as relevant | optional |
| CTC | optional | optional | optional |
Except for the newly formed CTCC, each domain community has a Change Management Board (CMB), which is chaired by the domain community leader. The CMBs determine the annual workplan for their community and prioritise change requests.
The members of each domain community formally elect:
- a community leader
- representatives to their Change Management Board
- representatives to cross-community bodies
Current domain community initiatives
Key initiatives for 2022 – Peppol Network Community (eDeC)
- Continue improvements to the change release process in line with the new agreement change processes including communication of change candidates
- Investigate possible upgrades of Peppol specifications taking into account newer versions of underlying standards from Oasis, such as SMP and XHE
- Improvements to the security and resilience of the Peppol network
- Continue support for International Invoicing and Continuous Transaction Control
Key initiatives for 2022 – Post Award Community (PoAC)
- Continue to improve the Peppol BIS messages
- Strengthening stability and improve the functionality
- Review the use of business and message responses in the network
- Mandatory or optional use
- Review the use of country specific rules
- Which country identifiers to use
- Rules on sender and receiver data
- Support the Proof of Concept of the PINT proposition
- Collaborate with e-DEC and the Stakeholder Communities
- Deliver new releases
- May and November
- Implement the new agreements
- Implement the new development and release process
- Survey the communities to drive CMB decisions
- Align the versioning of the specifications
Key initiatives for 2022 – Pre Award Community (PrAC)
- eTendering workgroup
- Development
- Guideline for Open Procedure
- New profile: eTendering Message Response
- New profile: Unsubscribe to procedure
- New profile: Invitation to Tender
- Guideline for Restricted Procedure
- New profile: Contracting, with coordination with the work on pre-award Catalogue Request and ESPD 3.0
- Deliver May & November releases
- Development
- ESPD v3 BIS workgroup
- Assessment of the ESPD BIS proposal from INTERPROC CEF funded action to steer towards a formal Peppol ESPD BIS.
- Development of Peppol ESPD 3.0 BIS based on ESPD EDM.
- Align the development and release process with the new tools for BIS creation (PDK)
Key initiatives for 2022 – CTC Community (CTCC)
- contribute to market development activities and supporting the recruitment of new Peppol Authorities and, more generally, the expansion of Peppol into new countries and territories where CTC is a relevant priority for the government
- improve, enhance, and further develop the existing playground environment
- further refine and develop technical aspects of the Decentralised Peppol CTC model, such as testing IRM (pending work in PoAC), TDD specifications and CTC SP certification requirements
- subject to engagement of relevant stakeholders and resources in the Association, further refine and develop additional aspects of the Peppol CTC model, such as cross-border, B2C and Centralised clearance scenarios
- contribute to the work of other communities, investigating whether an increased number of tax codes in Peppol BIS (and later PINT) needs to be introduced to improve granularity from TA perspective
Work Groups
OpenPeppol establishes formal work groups to manage specific initiatives to ensure the development and sustainability of the Peppol specifications and network.
Work groups are run by a work group leader and populated by volunteer representatives of OpenPeppol members. Work group members commit to actively participate in the discussions and activities of the group, supporting the work group leader in completing the agreed deliverables.
Work groups may be established at an organisational level or within stakeholder and domain communities. Each work group has a documented mandate, setting out the areas of responsibility and the expected deliverables.
Organisational-level work groups
- Peppol Agreement Revision
- Peppol Activity Reporting
Community-level work groups
Post Award work groups
- International Invoicing
- Core Invoice Response
- Peppol BIS Development
- Peppol Test Team
Pre Award work groups
- eTendering
- ESPD
- Qualification
- eForms/publishing
Join a Community or Work Group
Contact the Community Leader or Work Group Leader – details can be found under “who-is-who”.