Requirements for SOLA

Submitted by Pat vB(5)
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10 March, 2011 - 04:59

After developing Requirements for the (non-spatial) Malawi Land Registration System I make the following observations on the SOLA Statement of Requirements v1.1.

1.    We also went with a decentralised approach – central master system plus distributed replicas.  (We tried to establish a reliable WAN but couldn’t swing it.)

2.    Hours of operation 7am to 7pm, plus 24x7 for Internet operations such as form downloads and permitted (limited) data enquiries

3.    Required response times – generally we went for 2 seconds.  That should be eminently achievable in this day and age.

a.    Display a form, save a record     2 secs

b.    Display and search database      2 secs

c.    Display an imaged document      5 secs

d.    Generate a document     5 secs

e.    Produce a report            20 secs

4.    A possible addition to FN-69 Print Title is to save an archived copy of the generated certified document, for audit purposes.

5.    Another possible addition to FN-69 Print Title is to include a non-falsifiable security mark on the generated certified document, to ensure the document is not later tampered with – a problem in jurisdictions where corruption or fraud can occur.

6.    Potential systems to link to – in Malawi the government is establishing a National Registration Bureau which will allocate an identifier to every citizen, and which eventually will be used to identify a person in the Land registration system

7.    System needs to handle both Deeds and Titles, and a possible later conversion from Deeds to Titles.

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neil.pullar1 year 9 weeks ago
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Requirements

I like your suggestions, Pat.

Only reservations are to do with:

(3) response times where I would like to think that infrastructure constraints would allow that sort of improved (from what has been described in the SOLA Requirements document) response time but in my experience that is not the case in many of situations I have observed; and

(5) the non-falsiable security mark. In some countries the certificate / certified document is required by law or needs to be clearly authentic, authoritative and original. However, as societies and their laws, become more accepting of digital records, and access to the digital record becomes more widely available and easy, the need for such measures disappears. Personally, I always encourage registration and cadastre agencies to look beyond traditional methods based on paper records  to ensure that registration or cadastral documents and details are authentic and reflect the status of the land/property at the time the document or search was generated. There are different less constraining methods to ensure the authenticity of records and details in a digital environment than security marks and/or the use of special paper/parchment.