4.3.9 IDS Rulebook
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It is all about data. If you are going to build or use data driven ecosystems or data driven business models, you should strongly consider data – and therefore the IDSA rulebook.
This Rulebook addresses:
peer to peer data sharing
data marketplaces
Data sharing ecosystems
Data driven platforms
Data driven business models
The overall goal is to make more data available to more organizations and ecosystems being aware, that data availability and exchange become a critical success factor for national and international economies. The key idea is to attach data sovereignty to data to enable even the exchange of sensible data, which often is some of the most valuable. For this reason, the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) has defined a data sharing scheme including the Reference Architecture Model and a set of agreements to be used for creating and operating virtual data spaces. The IDS Scheme is based on commonly accepted data governance models facilitating secure exchange and easy linkage of data within business ecosystems.
The IDS Scheme ensures data sovereignty for data owners making data available for being exchanged or shared. It thereby constitutes the basis for developing and offering smart services and for establishing innovative business processes.
The IDS initiative aims at defining the technical base and set of agreements for secure and trusted data spaces, in which companies of any size and from any industry can manage their data assets in a sovereign fashion. It addresses companies and other organizations from across Europe and beyond. IDSA already counts over one-hundred member organizations from twenty countries. The interplay of all these companies. Members, guest and data sovereignty suppliers and appliers, will fulfil the common value proposition of generating business value from data.
Rules of the game: The purpose of this Rulebook is, to describe clearly what rules and guidance all participants have to follow to achieve the goal of the common interplay in upcoming data economies. This governance framework including the functional, technical, operational, and legal agreements. They are binding for all roles and their interaction in the dedicated environment:
The IDSA Support Organization: Responsible e.g. for maintaining the Rulebook and for supporting its application. The IDSA Support Organization as an enabler for the orchestration of the processes and as general governance instance a foundation for the realization of internal structures and interfaces to other parties
The essential service providers: Responsible e.g. for providing the essential services needed by all participant. They build the source of common agreements.
All users of IDSA data sovereignty getting guidance on how to proceed within this framework for the realization of use cases on the foundation of a trustworthy infrastructure and governance
The interaction of all is structured and guided within this Rulebook.
The IDSA Rulebook defines structures and processes for the implementation of the IDS-Reference Architecture Model in real-world scenarios. This includes the realization of the essential service as well as the definition of processes for the relevant processes, e.g. admission and withdrawal of participants.
Cross Industry Approach: This approach on data sovereignty is not industry specific, it is applicable in all economic sectors. Therefore, sector specific rules are not described in the Rulebook. In consequence, all rules and guidelines could be applied in all economic sectors and – more over – across these sectors to establish data exchange among different industries. IDS is a horizontal approach. On its foundation data sovereignty call build in and across all industries.
The scope of this document in detail covers:
Functional agreements: Guidance on functionality of common services as well as definition, processes and services of dedicated roles
Technical agreements: Everything need to know to implement or use a technical artefact of the IDSA world
Operational agreements: Everything need to know to run and collaborate (technically) within data sovereignty services
Legal agreements: Critical success factor is the legal environment, so it is in close focus, what legal environment is valid, what legal boundaries are out there, what is to be committed and from what commitments and laws the dedicated data exchange can benefit
Commercial assumptions: This Rulebook defines not a commercial business model, but it is enabling several ones. Commercial Agreements are not part of the Rulebook, but we make some commercial assumptions à Essential services (low profit), base services (enabling functionality) cash cow services on top of that. à Commercial agreements will be done separately.
Liaisons agreements: The data sovereignty community based on IDS naturally collaborates with other ecosystems like ENX or certifications in automotive, Plattform Industrie 4.0, GAIA-X etc. Liaisons agreements are about guiding principles guard railing for these collaborations. IDSA provides processes and measures to actively contribute to liaisons and to provide value for the IDSA Liaison partners.
Using IDS, IDS based frameworks, services and offerings means, to make use of trusted data sovereignty for your business or your own offerings. So, using IDS in detail is depending on the role, you are going to play in the dedicated data driven continuum.
Overall, there are some rules and guidelines in common:
Life cycle is defined: There is a common definition on life cycle agreements for IDS based assets, e.g. the IDS standards and services. See attachment “Operational Agreements, Life Cycle”
Processes: There are some common definitions of necessary processes e.g. for development, certification, onboarding, operation and usage. See attachment “Operational Agreements. Processes”
Typical roles anticipated in an IDS based data driven continuum are described in more detail. Included are Data Provider and Data Owner, Data Consumer, Data user, Metadata Broker, Software-, Service- and App-Provider, Appstore Provider, and basic roles like ID Provider, Certification Provider, Clearing House and Vocabulary Provider.
In summary, using IDS and make use of data sovereignty as competitive advantage for the own business is quite easy, because everything is well prepared. The guiding website https://www.internationaldataspaces.org provides all information.
Guiding principles were leading the team in structuring the complete IDS ecosystem, it´s roles and this Rulebook.
Do not reinvent the wheel
Integrate into existing systems,
Integrate or use existing standards,
Be industry agnostic, but applicable in all verticals as horizontal standard
Be easy usable and applicable by individual companies and initiatives/ecosystems
Overall: Create a new global open standard for data sovereignty:
Open standard generally implies: 1) free to use for everyone (although in some sectors this is interpreted in different ways ...), 2) an open process through which everyone can participate, 3) transparent decision making (preferably by consensus or otherwise through a pre-defined structure).
