Eclipse Dataspace Protocol 2025.03 Progress Review

Type
Progress
State
Ongoing
End Date of the Review Period

Reviews run for a minimum of one week. The outcome of the review is decided on this date. This is the last day to make comments or ask questions about this review.

Scope

The Dataspace Protocol is a set of specifications designed to facilitate interoperable data sharing between entities governed by usage control and based on Web technologies. These specifications define the schemas and protocols required for entities to publish data, negotiate Agreements, and access data as part of a federation of technical systems termed a Dataspace.

The web rendering of the Dataspace Protocol represents the current state on this repo's main branch: https://eclipse-dataspace-protocol-base.github.io/DataspaceProtocol/

The Dataspace Protocol aims a release as Eclipse Specification combining this specification with the Dataspace TCK (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.dataspacetck ) and at least one conformant implementation. The Eclipse Dataspace Components EDC (https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.edc ) are planned as compliant implementation, others are welcome. The Dataspace Protocol targets a PAS transposition to ISO during 2025.

Status (February 2025)

The Dataspace Protocol project is approved by the Eclipse Dataspace Working Group (EDWG) and the Eclipse Foundation. International Data Spaces Association IDSA contributed the specification document as the initial contribution in summer 2024. The first progress review is scheduled for Q1/2025 and the release 1 is scheduled for summer 2025. 

The Dataspace Protocol has a healthy number of committers (4 organizations and 7 individuals) and contributors, see https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.dataspace-protocol-base/who . 72 commits have been provided to the main branch since the project start. 

The Dataspace Protocol is adopted by various industrial users. 

Resources

Source Code Management: A new organization has been created on GitHub for the project: 

https://github.com/eclipse-dataspace-protocol-base

Repositories: The Dataspace Protocol specification document is in the repository https://github.com/eclipse-dataspace-protocol-base/DataspaceProtocol.  Otterdog is enabled for the GitHub organization and maintained in the https://github.com/eclipse-dataspace-protocol-base/.eclipsefdn Repository

A repository for the website is added. See below

Issue Tracker: 

GitHub issues have been enabled for the project.

Outbound Communication:

Mailing list: https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/dataspace-protocol-base-dev

Website:

The: https://github.com/eclipse-dataspace-protocol-base/website repo has been created and added to our publishing tool. The website is available at https://eclipse.dev/dataspace-protocol-base.

The Dataspace Protocol human-friendly rendering is available at https://eclipse-dataspace-protocol-base.github.io/DataspaceProtocol/

Downloadshttp://download.eclipse.org/dataspace-protocol-base

Archiveshttp://archive.eclipse.org/dataspace-protocol-base

Community Calls: Monthly on Thursday 10:30 am to 11:00 am CET to be announced via the Discussions in the Dataspace Protocol Repository

Committer Calls: Weekly on Thursday between 10:00 am and 10:30 am CET

Roadmap and Milestones

MS 1: Initial Contribution, July 2024 (achieved)

MS 2: Project is fully operational, October 2024 (achieved)

MS 3: DSP Editor’s Draft and TCK alpha 1, February 2025

MS 4: Successful Progress Review, March 2025

MS 5:DSP TCK alpha 2, April 2025

MS 6: DSP Release Candidate and TCK Beta, May 2025

MS 7: DSP Release review, May to June 2025

MS 8: DSP Release 1, July 2025

MS 9: Start of PAS Transposition to ISO, August 2025

MS 10: Initiating planning for the next release, October 2025