Good afternoon. Thank you so much for coming.
Ms. Mandal, in your opening comments, you said something that I wanted to dig down a little deeper into, just so I have a better understanding. We know right now that if we're going to do anything in digital government we need private sector involvement. It has to go hand in hand to leverage not only the intelligence in the private sector but also these advanced technologies that they have. We also know right now that information, especially in Canada, is very decentralized, with different levels of government holding information, and even different departments holding different information.
In the white paper you wrote, you talked about the federated approach to the digital ID framework. You mentioned some of that in your opening comments. Can you give us a broader understanding of how that will work in contrast to the Estonian model with X-Road? You said one thing that I think is similar to X-Road, that there are no honeypots. But with X-Road they started from greenfields. We're not going to be able to start from a greenfield. We have more advances to mature, legacy systems. Different departments have different systems.
How could we compare the two? How would the federated approach work as compared to X-Road, which is a different approach in Estonia?