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1 year has passed since our first dialogue about Peppol.  We review the latest situation of Peppol adoption in Japan.

On 7th December 2022, our Mr.Sugawara made a presentation in Exchange Summit 2022, as a member of Japan Peppol Authroity, together with Mr.Kato of Japan Digital Agency.

On 28th November, the chairman of Sorrento Municipal congress Rag. Di Prisco welcome our Mr.Sugawara, together with Mr.Massetti (QMS's marketing associate), to discuss on the pilot project of the fish traceability of Sorrento area.  Mr.Massetti is one of the founders of the project 'wantITA', which is a strong initiative to promote the real 'made in Italy' products to US market, therefore, traceability and interoperability are very important, to guarantee high quality and originality with good transparency.  

Our proposal was approved and published in the bulletin of City of Sorrento. 

On 25th July 2022, our Mr.Sugawara met Ing.Carlo Borgehtti (Vice president / Lombardia)  at Grattacielo PIrelli in Milan.   The dialogue took place as the director of Triplo M's S.A., however, we touched upon a lot of QMS's scope business possibilites, such as cyber security, more digitalized telemedicine, energy consumption optimization and it's infrastructure (especially EV Charging startions) .

Since summer 2021, QMS International S.A. continues dialogue with Sorrento City (south of Italy, near Naples) about potential digitalization projects.

（Atsuya Sugawara）In the previous sessions, you mentioned the general expectations for a new service offered by foreign companies. We, QMS International, are launching a new product, we attached Quadrans Blockchain to Peppol Access point. 

（Hiroyuki Kato）Is it necessary that Peppol (Open source) is linked to Quadrans (Open source too)? What benefit does it bring? 

（AS）That’s a sharp opinion. Indeed, I received the same question many times at the Exchange Summit. The blockchain benefits are not completely appreciated for the current 4 corner model. Right now, it is just an insurance. However, our product does not interfere the Peppol transmission layer at all, bringing advantages coming from Peer to Peer, Time stamp and mutual recognition/authentication. It means the user can be sure the transmission has been completed as it should be, the practice and the meaning of the digital signature and its certificate would be changed. In fact, a whitelist (= smart contract) can give an alternative way of KYC. The new C5 concept presented by Peppol at the Exchange Summit may be a good opportunity for our Quadrans Blockchain. It gets C5 layer operative as smooth as possible. You, Mr.Kato also made a statement of Japan’sB2B focus through the e-invoice project: Our service allows the users to add new applications and to easily adopt new regulations with a new suitable smart contract. 

（HK）At the Exchange Summit, we heard the general interest on the blockchain technology. However, all the conclusion was rather negative because of the expensive cost. What about the cost of Quadrans Blockchain? As we are now the Peppol Authority in Japan, we are quite concerned about the cost for the user, because our main task is to promote the Peppol E-Invoice as much as possible. Indeed, we expect Peppol service providers to offer their services at a reasonable cost.