Data Spaces & Sovereignty

Dataspace Protocol

Community EU IDSA / Eclipse Dataspace Working Group Since 2023

A protocol for sovereign data exchange: catalogue discovery, contract negotiation over ODRL usage policies, and a transfer process that hands off to whatever data plane the parties agree on.

It is the machinery that makes "data stays under the provider's terms" enforceable across organisational boundaries, and the reference protocol for EU data space implementations such as the Eclipse Dataspace Components.

At a glance

Category
Data Spaces & Sovereignty
Jurisdiction
EU
Governance
IDSA / Eclipse Dataspace Working Group
Status
Release 2025-1; maintained by the Eclipse Dataspace Working Group
First released
2023

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