Title: MAINTENANCE PLAN

Maintenance Plan

The maintenance plan will be launched soon after the database has been updated with the latest findings and will carry on during the third Workplan period. The maintenance plan will be a loop composed of three stages: 1) identification of the IMS and gathering of the related data, 2) validation of the collected data and 3) updating of data. Therefore, an iterative way will be put in place between FIDIS members, maintenance team and external corresponding developers or responsible person of identified IMS.

The maintenance team must be able to modify contents of existing records, add new records, and change all data related to IMS records.

In addition, a validation phase is being implemented; this phase consists in sending the IMS data to the corresponding responsible of each identified IMS in order to verify the veracity of the information or to complement it. 

Furthermore, a testing phase will start involving all FIDIS partners, where partners can use the database in order to give feedback but can also add additional records. In the next phase, via a validation stage, the IPTS will request additional information from Identity Management Systems developers. It is foreseen that the data entry and testing phase will last three months.  

It is intended that the database, as amended by the testing phase with the FIDIS partners during the first trimester 2006 and will be made available to the general public in March 2006. This date coincides with the end of the 18-month period (second Workplan).

And finally, a disclaimer concerning the non-exhaustiveness will be displayed on the website in order to inform that we do not pretend to provide an exhaustive IMS database.