Summary and outlook

The IDSA Rulebook recognises the growing need for structural approaches to accessing and sharing data while maintaining data sovereignty. The use of guiding principles helps identify solutions for this growing market. It includes the understanding of the plurality the current global regulation and legislation. Data spaces are a durable concept, applicable to data ecosystems internationally.

The functional analysis of both parts, the creation of a data space and the data space governance authority, as well as the requirements and obligations of a participant in a data space is a central piece of this document. The comprehensive outline provides guidance for the creation and management of data spaces.

The analysis of the legal framework for data spaces is ongoing and subject to continuous debate and will be part of this Rulebook in future versions.

Based on the recent IDSA work, additional publications provide more insights into data spaces. As concept of data spaces evolves updates to the IDSA Rulebook will be made. As many aspects of data spaces are updated separately and the urgency of discussions reflects and ever changing landscape of focus points of attention the IDSA Rulebook has been structured in a way that allows for fine granular update of the presented concepts.

The IDSA Rulebook will no longer feature a fixed version number. The published version always reflects the latest design aspects and will be updated as new contributions are made to the GitHub Repository, discussed in the Working Group Meetings and approved and published. A versioned history of each document is available through the detailed version management mechanisms of GitHub.