Information Systems (H) Task Force
September 29, 2007

The Information Systems (H) Task Force met on Saturday, September 29, 2007.

During this meeting, the Information Systems (H) Task Force:

• Reviewed and adopted minutes from Aug 15, 2007 Information Systems (H) Task Force meeting.

• Heard and adopted a report from the Technical Consulting Working Group. The Working Group reported that it had reviewed project requests concerning the proposed elimination of the State Private Network and enhancements to the Online Fraud Reporting System (OFRS), communicated questions seeking additional information on these project requests, and received and reviewed the responses for the OFRS project. A report will be provided to the Information Resources Management (H) Committee. It was announced that Christie Borchin (CA) has been appointed as chair of this Working Group.

• Heard and adopted a report from the Strategic Systems Planning Working Group. It was reported that the NAIC will participate at the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) annual conference to promote the Portal offering. The status of several Business Fiscal Impact Statements (BFIS) was provided, indicating that they are not included in the 2008 budget. A recommendation was received from the Working Group to postpone demonstrations of the National Portal until the December National Meeting to allow inclusion of enhancements being implemented as a result of limited release pilot feedback.

• Heard and adopted the final report from the XML-Web Services Working Group indicating that the charges have been completed and providing an overview of the Working Group’s work product. A recommendation that the Working Group be disbanded, having completed their charge, was approved.

• Reviewed and adopted the 2008 charges for the Task Force. The Task Force discussed potentially adding a privacy and security charge in the future following additional discussion by the Task Force. The charges were adopted as presented.

• Heard a status on the Portal Framework indicating continued progress on portal development including a common role that would provide more general regulatory access. Based on feedback received during the financial pilot, enhancements to the portal look are being implemented. These enhancements, limited release of the market and the financial roles, and release of the common role are scheduled for release Nov. 28, 2007.

• Heard that the System for Electronic Rate and Form Filings (SERFF) received record filings in August with over 37,000 filings. SERFF v5.2 was released into production on August 15 and v5.3 is scheduled for end of November release. Development has begun on v5.4 which is tentatively scheduled for Feb 2008 release and is the first phase of implementing the two-year development plan approved in July. Fifty states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico accept filings via SERFF. Currently twelve states are or will be mandating SERFF in 2007. Additional states will be mandating SERFF or electronic filings in 2008 and 2009.

• Heard that the first ClaimNet implementation was completed by Florida and work is continuing on training and to get additional states on board. Twelve states are registered for training being conducted in October 2007; additional states are welcomed to participate. A possible survey of states was discussed to determine if there are any technology barriers to participation.

• Heard the State Producer Licensing Re-engineering (SPLR) Project update outlining completion of the Collaboration Iteration and progress on Iteration 1 which includes Industry Reports, I-SITE Producer Reports, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and Administration Tool Set. All hardware has been purchased with the exception of the DecaMAN circuit which may not be necessary.

• Heard an update that the Market Regulation Web Service moved into production last week. Information is available in the NAIC Web Services registry.

• Heard an update on the Security Foundation Project work on additional enhancements. The NAIC Security team is working with states on conversion of their users to LDAP/Oracle Access Manager (OAM).

• Heard an update on the Solvency Tool project which is going well and is on schedule.

• Clarified that State Based Systems (SBS) is currently only supporting NAIC hosting.

Action Items:

• Review feedback from October 2007 ClaimNet training to determine how best to survey states for feedback.