- The Dutch government launched a tender for digital technologies to assist with Corona, focusing on privacy-sensitive contact tracing and referencing PEPP-PT.
- Responses are due April 14, 2020, with a demo required by April 18 and potential rollout by April 28, an ambitious timeline.
- The author submitted a proposal with partners including Fox-IT and Intermax for a backend service for querying and submitting infected keys.
- The backend will feature rollback of bad submissions, health care authorization checks, checkpointing, incremental updates, DoS-filtering, and high scalability.
- Code will be open source on GitHub, and the API will be open to support multiple apps, focusing on high performance and geo-redundancy.
- The project complements privacy-preserving protocols like DP-3T or Apple/Google by handling data uploads.