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Originally Posted by Hugh
And there was me basing it on 39 years experience in Technology, working on many major technology implementations, and running large Technology departments supporting multi-billion pound businesses...
The challenge is that no one has done anything like this on this scale and of this complexity before, using untested technologies - this is a recipe for budget and time over-runs.
Just creating the work-flows for all the different scenarios would take a year or two, then understanding the interfaces required between all the technology systems involved (some of which won’t exist yet), then you have to translate that into what is technologically possible, which will then be subject to scope change/creep by changes in the real world and political imperatives - this is what happened to the NHS IT Programme; people with no idea of how things actually work (on the ground doing the actual work or the implementors of technology) make sweeping statements like "well, it can’t be that difficult" without any basis in fact or knowledge.
Technology isn’t magic - you need high level requirements, which then become detailed requirements, which you have to find a solution for (both technology and business based - technology supports and delivers business requirements and solutions, it is not a solution on its own), and you then have to develop, integrate, test, re-work, re-test (repeat cycle until complete) and then implement (which is a major piece of work on its own).
As the Home Office slide so aptly put it
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Yadda Yadda,
The point I’m making is that no one is going to put up a hard border, UK won’t do it, RoI won’t do it, EU won’t do it. So in the event of a no deal Brexit, regardless of how technologically difficult, a solution would be found - it would have to be. Necessity is the mother of invention and if all the three parties are working to the same goal a solution would be found. Just because it hasn’t been done before doesn’t mean it can’t be done.
Have you always worked in technology all your life and approached your projects with the attitude of it’s too much like hard work?
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Originally Posted by Damien
They found a solution: a customs union and/or backstop.
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No point going over that ground again.
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A technological solution which requires no hard border but allows regulatory divergence between this invisible border is not so easy. It's advocates have not told us what the technology would be or where else such as system is working in practise.
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Because it most likely doesn’t exist yet. Or does exist and hasn’t been tried and tested, or does exist disparately and needs bringing together.
Because there hasn’t been a requirement for such a system and no one has really needed one so one hasn’t been developed yet, doesn’t mean one couldn't be quickly, and whilst it’s being developed, interim processes put in place.