The Dataspaces
Opportunity
Trusted,Sovereign &Multi-Cloud
Data Sharing
Uli Homann
Corporate Vice President &Distinguished Architect

MicrosoftEveryone
needs Trusted
Data Sharing

Organizations & Companies in this slide are actively contributing to the Eclipse Dataspace Components ProjectValue proposition

Data provides
value when it
interacts - notwhen locked
away, sitting idle.

Companies areafraid someone
else will takeadvantage of theirdata and they will
miss out on value
generation.

Data Producers
want a say inwhat happens todata after it has
been shared.

Dataspaces
create trust andwill enable a newera of data
sharing and valuegeneration.

Dataspaces
provide data
governance overexternal data.

Dataspaces
enablemonetization
strategies fordata.

Dataspace Characteristics
Metadata is shared whiledata remains stored atsource

Policies control accessParticipants in a dataspacenegotiate Data Contracts
which contain Access,Contract & Usage Policies

Data Transfer is always
peer-to-peer

Dataspaces are
infrastructure agnostic(On Premises, Edge, Cloud)Value-added services enrich Dataspaces(Marketplace, Auditors, Algorithm Providers,…)

Dataspaces & AI•Membership policies simplify trust creation in thedataspace by aggregating base attributes required forparticipation•

Access Policies control who has access to data•

Contract Policies control how and to which environments
data can be shared•

Usage Policies control how data can be used once shared•

Example:•Membership policy••

Access policy••

only available for European Energy companies that are verified suppliers

Contract policy••

Policies in Dataspaces are ideally suited
to provide guidance for data usage in AIscenarios

must be a European Energy company with a valid eIDAS ID

data needs to be shared to data landing zone on Microsoft Cloud forSovereignty in France

Usage policy•••

data may not be used to train LLMs
data can be used for prompt engineering
data can be used to anchor factual answers••

data cannot be used for healthcare related queries
data needs to be refreshed/deleted after 30 days

Dataspace Standardization

Conceptual Standards
ISO/IEC 20151Dataspaces

CEN/Cenelec CWA Trusted Data Tx

Technical Standards
Eclipse Dataspace Working Group(EDWG)• Dataspace Protocol (DSP)
Specification• Identity & Trust Protocol (IATP)
Specification

Reference Implementations
Ecosystem of OSS projects• Eclipse Dataspace Components• FiWare• Gaia-X

How to participate
As a company – join IDSA•

https://internationaldataspaces.org/make/working-groups-and-task-forces/

As a company – join the Eclipse Dataspaces Working Group•https://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/dataspace-charter.php

As a developer – join the open-source projects!
••

https://github.com/eclipse-edc
https://github.com/eclipse-dataspacetck

As an architect – join the IDSA Architecture Working Group•https://github.com/International-Data-Spaces-Association

As a business strategist or legal expert – join the IDSA Rulebook Working Group•https://github.com/International-Data-Spaces-Association/IDSA-Rulebook

As a Dataspace Enthusiast••Project Manager, Technical Writer, Marketing Manager, Copy Editors,..
Join the working groups and be active – any help you can provide will be appreciated!