Data Spaces & Sovereignty
IDS-RAM
International Data Spaces Reference Architecture Model
The architecture model that introduced the data space vocabulary in Europe: connectors, identity providers, clearing houses, vocabulary hubs, and the sovereign exchange of data between them.
Its concepts survive; its own protocol layer has effectively been superseded by the Dataspace Protocol, which is where the interoperability work has moved.
At a glance
- Category
- Data Spaces & Sovereignty
- Jurisdiction
- EU
- Governance
- International Data Spaces Association
- Status
- RAM 4 is the stable edition, with 2026-1 in draft; the connector concept lives on in the Dataspace Protocol
- First released
- 2019
Links
Related frameworks
Other entries under Data Spaces & Sovereignty.
- Gaia-X: Gaia-X Trust Framework
- Dataspace Protocol
- DSSC Blueprint: Data Spaces Blueprint
See IDS-RAM in context
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