Documentation

NRDEX Instances

Instance identifiers, onboarding purpose, and technical configuration details for NRDEX exchange instances.

Purpose

This page summarizes the NRDEX exchange instances in the same comparison style commonly used for X-Road instance documentation.

NRDEX focuses on two instance names: BD for production and BD-TEST for testing. Instance identifiers are case-sensitive and must be used exactly as issued in certificates, member registrations, subsystem registrations, service descriptions, and configuration anchors.

Instance comparison

Property BD (production) BD-TEST (test)
Instance identifier BD BD-TEST
Primary purpose Live inter-agency and authorized institutional data exchange Integration testing, onboarding rehearsal, service validation, and member readiness checks
Real data used Yes, subject to approved legal basis, access grants, and production controls No. Test or masked data should be used unless separately approved
Members Approved production members Prospective members and approved test participants
Service publishing Production services only after governance, legal, and technical approval Test services for integration validation and acceptance testing
Access control Explicit access grants between approved production members Explicit test access grants between approved test participants
Certificate use Production SIGN and AUTH certificates Test SIGN and AUTH certificates
Security Server requirement Required for every participating organization Required for every participating organization testing through NRDEX
Hardware signing device by the governing authority and certificate policy by the governing authority and certificate policy
Onboarding channel NRDEX governing authority and production onboarding process NRDEX onboarding process and technical coordination
Service level Production service level and incident process apply No production service level unless explicitly agreed

Technical properties

Property BD (production) BD-TEST (test)
Configuration anchor To be published for production onboarding Anchor File for BD-TEST instance
Configuration anchor hash C22A18B0B1CA4A61DE26D556EFF987B47919215710D05D53EDC068DD
Configuration download URL https://test-cs.nrdex.gov.bd/internalconf
Fallback configuration download URL http://test-cs.nrdex.gov.bd/internalconf
Central Server host test-cs.nrdex.gov.bd
Monitoring server
Member classes by NRDEX governance by NRDEX governance
Certification service provider by certificate policy by certificate policy
Timestamping service provider by certificate policy by certificate policy
Trust services OCSP endpoint http://staging-ocsp-pki.bcc-ca.gov.bd:8777/adss/ocsp
Timestamping endpoint https://test-adss.bcc-ca.gov.bd:8778/adss/tsa
Global configuration validity Defined by the published global configuration
OCSP validity Defined by the published global configuration
Timestamping interval Defined by the published global configuration
Federated instances

NRDEX core server URLs

NRDEX operates a Central Server and a management Security Server for both the BD and BD-TEST instances. Publish the approved URLs here when they are formally assigned.

Instance Central Server Management Security Server Configuration URL
BD To be published To be published To be published
BD-TEST test-cs.nrdex.gov.bd To be published https://test-cs.nrdex.gov.bd/internalconf

Usage guidance

  • Use BD-TEST before production onboarding to validate Security Server installation, subsystem registration, service publish rules, service consume rules, access grants, and request handling.
  • Keep certificates, subsystems, service descriptions, and access grants separate between test and production.
  • Do not reuse production datasets in the test instance unless the data has been approved, masked, or otherwise handled under the applicable data protection requirements.
  • Treat instance identifiers as case-sensitive protocol values.
  • Move to BD (Production) only after the member organization, services, access conditions, and technical readiness have been approved.

Maintenance note

The BD-TEST values on this page are based on the published NRDEX test configuration anchor in this repository. Production values and detailed certificate policy fields should be updated when the governing authority publishes the corresponding production configuration and operating policy.