GAIA-X and IDS

This position paper gives a first overview of the architectures of GAIA-X and International Data Spaces. This is followed by a discussion on how the two infrastructures are or can be aligned to one infrastructure. We only focus on the alignment of IDS and GAIA-X without any discussions about other initiatives like Plattform Industrie 4.0, SWIPO (Switching Cloud Providers and Porting Data), or similar. This current paper also does not specifically address synergies with the Once-Only technical system developed by the European Commission for the public sector, which will re-use mature solutions from the CEF Building Blocks and the ISA² Core Vocabularies. From our perspectives, these initiatives are also highly relevant and are partly linked to both, IDS and GAIA-X initiatives, but an integration would go beyond the scope of this paper