The E-government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) is a collection of policies and standards endorsed for New Zealand government information technology (IT) systems.

Use of the e-GIF

• helps government agencies more easily work together electronically
• makes systems, knowledge and experience reusable from one agency to another
• reduces the effort required to deal with government online by encouraging consistency of approach

Intergen specialises in the development of business solutions using only Microsoft development technologies which are closely aligned to the e-GIF standards. 

When Intergen has control over all aspects of a delivered solution it will be 100% compliant with the standards.

The aspects of the standards relevant to our solutions are: 

Design

UML - Where models are required, UML notation will be used
WSDL 1.1 - Used to define the web services interfaces

Development

HTML 4.01 - For markup of web page content
UTF 8 - For encoding of web page content
GIF/JPEG - Used for images within web pages
SOAP 1.2 - Used as the web services protocol
W3C XML 1.0 - Encapsulation of web service messages
MIME - Used for email message encoding

Infrastructure

HTTP 1.1 - Page transport protocol, also used for SOAP message transport
TCP/IP - Carrier protocol for HTTP transport
SMTP - Email transport protocol