Wrap up and Next Steps

Wrap-up and Next Steps

📅 June 30, 2025 | 🕖 07:43

🔍 High-Level Wrap-Up

✅ What We Set Out To Do

• Bring the dataspace and EU-cloud communities together to align on vision, terminology, and key pain points
• Validate the “dataspace-as-a-service” opportunity for European cloud providers
• Kick off concrete OSS workstreams that any provider can adopt and monetize
• Map the standards landscape to build once and interoperate everywhere

🛠 What We Achieved in Two Intense Days

• 27+ organizations (cloud providers, SIs, SMEs, standards bodies) aligned on:

  • Shared roadmaps
  • Demos and open-source assets
  • Common vocabulary (e.g., control plane ≠ data plane, multilevel policies)

• Confirmed market demand:

  • Catena-X, Manufacturing-X, iSHARE, OPC Foundation, etc.
  • Need for hosted, multi-tenant EDC offerings (1M+ potential SME tenants)

• Demos and deliverables:

  • Minimum Viable Dataspace
  • Industrial data plane
  • Multi-cloud deployment scripts
  • Roadmap agreed for:
    • Virtualised EDC (EDC-V)
    • Connector Fabric Manager
    • Industrial Data Plane
    • Management Portal (M1 release target: Oct 2025)

• Standards alignment:

  • Walk-throughs: ISO/IEC 20151, CEN JTC 25 “Trusted Data Transactions”, Eclipse DSP & DCP, OPC UA Cloud
  • Commitment to submit Eclipse specs as ISO PAS and contribute to CEN test kits

🧠 Key Takeaways

1. Trust is the currency
   Multilevel policies (membership → access → contract → usage) must be machine-verifiable across cloud and dataspace boundaries.

2. No single vendor wins alone
   Open standards and OSS reference code must be adopted collaboratively.

3. Small-company onboarding is the KPI
   “One-click tenant creation, zero-click upgrades” is the goal for EDC next-gen.

4. Standards now carry legal weight
   Q3 2025 Data-Act standardization request will bring conformance testing into the core feature set.

📝 Decisions & Immediate Actions

🧩 Medium-Term Workstreams (Open for Joiners)

1. Connector Fabric Manager
   Kubernetes operator + workflow engine to place tenants on federated EU clouds

2. Industrial Data Plane
   High-throughput data flows (OPC UA, AAS REST, bulk objects) with enforcement hooks

3. Management Portal
   Unified provider UI: onboarding wizard, SLA dashboard, usage-based billing

4. Compliance Toolkit
   Automated conformance tools for Data Act Article 33/36

📅 Next Gathering

“We’re looking forward to having another version of this workshop in October…
Think about location – Munich was mentioned – we need Wi-Fi and good supply 😊.
Alexis will follow up with logistics.”
— Babak Jahromi