International Data Spaces Association
The International Data Spaces Association is a not-for-profit association of more than 140 organisations, incorporated under German law. It creates standards for sharing data in data spaces, that allow participants to have full control over their data.
IDSA was founded in 2017 to create data sharing standards for automated negotiation, exchange, and compliance enforcement. It also defines security standards, control and enforcement mechanisms for data usage, and rules for data traceability. IDSA specifies the legal, operational, functional, and technical agreements between organisations that share data within a data space. It is one of the main initiatives defining the technical specifications for data spaces in the European Union. IDSA releases and maintains a reference architecture model for data spaces. It also certifies the essential software components used in data spaces.