6.3.1. Manageable System Integration Model

It is understood that not every user of the decentralized solutions would possess with in-house technical capacity to maintain its own instance of system components constituting the decentralized solutions. A manageable system integration model will need to be in place to help promote adoptions of the decentralized solutions from its centralized counterparts, which have been implementing and adopted in the wider supply chain industry, among different potential users in supply chain industry and for different stakeholders of industries to collaborate for good to help improve the worsening situation of product counterfeits, with the process integrity also conserved.

Such a manageable system integration model could provide another layer of indirection, allowing potential users to safely manage their own keys and the backup of product records in case anything unexpected goes wrong with system components of the decentralized solutions. An organization or alliance of major industry participants could act or be voted as leaders and host system components such as microservices, mobile applications, and even the decentralized blockchain nodes forming a blockchain network, as a fail-over and manage requests from these potential users of the decentralized solutions. A common data model of product records, applied to the decentralized solutions, should also be defined with additional metadata added after completing different types of industrial operations or steps declared in product data operation such as data validation and data creation steps both off-chain and on-chain, in order to facilitate a seamless process of data migration and integration.
