8. Services and Resources - Mandatory attributes
The following defines the mandatory attributes to be provided in the Gaia-X Credentials to describe Services and Resources.
8.1 Service & Subclasses
8.1.1 Service offering
This is the generic format for all service offerings:
| Attribute | Card. | Trust Anchor | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
providedBy |
1 | Gaia-X Registry | a resolvable link to the participant self-description providing the service |
termsAndConditions[] |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | a resolvable link to the Terms and Conditions applying to that service. |
policy[] |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | a list of policy expressed using a DSL (e.g., Rego or ODRL) (access control, throttling, usage, retention, …) |
dataAccountExport[] |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | list of methods to export data from your user’s account out of the service |
termsAndConditions structure
| Attribute | Card. | Trust Anchor | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
URL |
1 | Gaia-X Registry | a resolvable link to document |
hash |
1 | Gaia-X Registry | sha256 hash of the above document. |
dataAccountExport structure
The purpose is to enable the participant ordering the service to assess the feasibility of exporting its personal and non-personal data out of the service.
This export shall cover account data e.g., account holder’s billing information, information on the PII held - but also data provided previously to the service by the user.
| Attribute | Card. | Trust Anchor | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
requestType |
1 | Gaia-X Registry | the mean to request data retrieval: API, email, webform, unregisteredLetter, registeredLetter, supportCenter |
accessType |
1 | Gaia-X Registry | type of data support: digital, physical |
formatType |
1 | Gaia-X Registry | type of Media Types (formerly known as MIME types) as defined by the IANA. |
Consistency rules
- the keys used to sign a SERVICE OFFERING description and the
providedByPARTICIPANT description should be from the same keychain.
8.1.2 Service Instance / Instantiated Virtual Resource
An Instantiated Virtual resource is a running resource exposing endpoints such as, and not limited to, a running process, an online API, a network connection, a virtual machine, a container, an operating system.
| Attribute | Card. | Trust Anchor | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
maintainedBy[] |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | a list of participant maintaining the resource in operational condition. |
hostedOn |
1 | Gaia-X Registry | a resource where the process is located (physical server, datacenter, availability zone, …). |
instanceOf |
1 | Gaia-X Registry | a virtual resource (normally a software resource) this process is an instance of. |
tenantOwnedBy[] |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | a list of participant with contractual relation with the resource. |
serviceAccessPoint[] |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | a list of Service Access Point which can be an endpoint as a mean to access and interact with the resource |
8.2 Resource & Subclasses
8.2.1 Physical Resource
A Physical resource is, but is not limited to, a datacenter, a bare-metal service, a warehouse, or a plant. Those are entities that have a weight and position in physical space.
| Attribute | Card. | Trust Anchor | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
maintainedBy[] |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | a list of participant maintaining the resource in operational condition and thus having physical access to it. |
locationAddress[].countryCode |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | a list of physical locations in ISO 3166-2 alpha2, alpha-3 or numeric format. |
Sustainability
The following attribute has to be linked to a service offering, physical resource or legal person.
The aim of the attribute is to allow a customer more educated and transparent decisions regarding the environmental impact.
| Attribute | Card. | Trust Anchor | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
environmentalImpactReport |
1 | ownedBy or providedBy |
a resolvable link to an environmental impact report of the Provider or a link to a public database listing the organisation as a signatory of a public engagement to reach Climate Neutrality by 2030 (e.g. Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact - signatories). |
8.2.2 Virtual Resource
A Virtual resource is a resource describing recorded information such as, but not limited to, a dataset, software, a configuration file, and an AI model.
| Attribute | Card. | Trust Anchor | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
copyrightOwnedBy[] |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | A list of copyright owners either as a free-form string or participant URIs from which Self-Descriptions can be retrieved. A copyright owner is a person or organization that has the right to exploit the resource. The copyright owner does not necessarily refer to the author of the resource, who is a natural person and may differ from the copyright owner. |
license[] |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | A list of SPDX identifiers or URL to document |
policy[] |
1..* | Gaia-X Registry | a list of policy expressed using a DSL (e.g., Rego or ODRL) (access control, throttling, usage, retention, …) |
The license refers to the license of the virtual resource - data or software, not the license of a potential instance of that virtual resource.
If there are no specified usage policy constraints on the VirtualResource, the policy should express a simple default: allow intent.