CEN/WS TDT
Trusted Data Transaction

For digital ecosystems trustworthiness is key to enable data exchanges between stakeholders. The International Data Space Association (IDSA), Gaia-X AISBL, IEEE SA Data Trading System Working Group, among others, are debating about corresponding terminology, concepts, and mechanisms for trusted data transactions. Common elements can be identified, although differences can also be seen in the details. The aim of the workshop is to establish terminology, concepts, and mechanisms for common elements to form a foundational understanding on which trusted data transactions can be based independent of any architectural choices or technical implementation. It can be used in all use cases where stakeholders need to establish trust for the purpose of data exchange and interconnection. The scope of the CWA is therefore to describe key concepts and mechanisms in the field of data exchange with the goal of identifying attribute-based criteria for the decision-making grid that baseline how to create trust in data transactions. Criteria can be of business, technical, organizational, contractual, legal, or regulatory nature. They can be imposed, for example by regulation or industry practice, or recommended. Additional criteria can be added by each party and used to arrange the level of trust suitable to the parties in the context of a particular data transaction. The CWA may be used in the development of other standards in support of data transactions among diverse, interested parties or stakeholders and contribute to the activities of European initiatives like the Data Space Support Center (DSSC) by proposing a common ground that debates can refer to. If successful, the CWA could be transformed into CEN-CENELEC standards and then effectively support the different EU regulation acts.

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