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20151 Information technology — Cloud computing and distributed platforms — Dataspace concepts and characteristics

As a StandICT fellow call 6, I would like to call your attention to the current working draft of 20151 on Dataspace concepts and characteristics, produced by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38/WG 6 Data, interoperability and portability. As convenor of this group I want to ensure this work when completed is widely adopted.

The working draft is available to experts of the national standardization bodies through the OSD. On March 17th 2025 the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38 plenary will be held with further working group meetings. This is an opportunity to join the discussion and learn more about this standard.

Please join our working group and review this document as we go through the comments disposition processes. 

Dataspaces provide a scalable and more automated approach to organizational agreements, and supporting software services that together enable trusted data sharing. This standard provides a discussion on high level concepts in Dataspaces. We anticipate that it be the entry point for other standards in the area. National bodies have the opportunity to join our working group and discuss the document further.

Please join ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 38/WG 6 Data, interoperability and portability to get involved in this standard and other standards in Data, interoperability and portability.

As a StandICT fellow of call 6, I will work with you on the adoption of 20151. 

Advanced Air Mobility becomes a topic for EU since the new legislation 2021/664 gets into force across member states on 26th January 2023.

Basic terminology:

Urban Air Mobility and Advanced Air Mobility

What is Urban Air Mobility?

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) envisions a safe and efficient aviation transportation system that will use highly automated aircraft that will operate and transport passengers or cargo at lower altitudes within urban and suburban areas.

UAM will be composed of an ecosystem that considers the evolution and safety of the aircraft, the framework for operation, access to airspace, infrastructure development, and community engagement.

What is Advanced Air Mobility?

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) builds upon the UAM concept by incorporating use cases not specific to operations in urban environments, such as:

• Commercial Inter-city (Longer Range/Thin Haul)
• Cargo Delivery
• Public Services
• Private / Recreational Vehicles

Where Will UAM Aircraft Land?

The initial UAM ecosystem will use existing helicopter infrastructure such as routes, helipads, and Air Traffic Control (ATC) services, where practicable given the aircraft characteristics. Looking toward the future, the CAA is working to identify infrastructure design needs for these aircraft. CAA expects to develop a new vertiport standard in the coming years.

There is a need for provision of the standardisation of the UTM / ATM systems interoperability to assure common and brad adoption of Unmanned Air Mobility Services