General Information

Project Charter

Weekly Meeting:  Wednesdays, 3-4pm CET (Zoom Link)(Subscribe to Community Calendar to stay up to date)

Slack Channel 

Github Repo

Project Leads:

• Sonia Biswas, Volvo Cars
• Christina Rux, WirelessCar
• Nils Lagerqvist , Volvo Cars

Agenda Next Meeting

June 11, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
4. Next meeting

Meeting Notes

May 28, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
   1. Christina Rux's reflections from COVESA AMM
      1. Takes some time to explain the purpose of this project to new people  
      2. Daniel Eriksson and Ted Guild shared and explained the ongoing work of examples using VSS
      3. Asked for contact persons that are involved in the EU work of "harmonized interoperability standards", no new contacts yet. We would like to learn more about the ongoing work so if any OEM or other is involved in the workshops organized by the EU work group, please let us know.
      4. General reflection: there isn't so much activity in this project at the moment, we are slowly but surely working on our deliverables but it seems right at this moment to take it at this pace and just be prepared for more "buzz" around this topic when the EU Commission release their report on "mandatory standards for interoperability", date unknown. So we are basically intentionally keeping the lights on right now! 
   2. Ongoing work (contact us on slack if you want to contribute, see slack info at the top of this page)
      1. Writing a recommendation of use of VSS and VISS (on github) 
         1. Gather material with argumentation on why to use VSS from a regulation point of view
         2. Also include arguments that not only automotive but also other industries like insurance, fleet are benefiting from this since they use the data
         3. Arguments of other domains in automotive that point to the use of VSS (eg Autosar gateway)
      2. Build examples (github)
      3. Search for contact persons in the EU work group 
   3. Proposal of deadline: present results of the work on meeting at August 20 (or even later, depending on different stakeholders' vacation)
   4. Proposal to move this meeting to a fortnight schedule rather than weekly. Paul changed the meeting invitations accordingly.
4. Next meeting

May 21, 2025 Agenda - Will be cancelled in favor of working with material

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
4. Next meeting

May 14, 2025 Agenda - Cancelled, COVESA AMM in Berlin

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
4. Daniel Eriksson  to talk something on the setup of the Github repo. Ted Guild - discuss some more on Fleet and insurance signals points of interest.
5. Next meeting

May 7, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
4. Daniel Eriksson  to talk something on the setup of the Github repo. Ted Guild - discuss some more on Fleet and insurance signals points of interest.
5. Next meeting

April 30, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
4. Discussion on the content of the EU Data Act Panel @ COVESA AMM in Berlin, It was a really good discussion! 
5. Next meeting

April 23, 2025 Agenda - Cancelled

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
4. TBA 
5. Next meeting

April 16, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
4. TBA 
5. Next meeting

April 9, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
   1. Short update on current status, including text provided by Kai Hudalla. 
   2. The Github repo was published shortly after the meeting COVESA/eu-data-act: EU Data Act Project
4. TBA 
5. Next meeting

April 2, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
   1. Ask to all: please try to find representatives in the ongoing EU commission investigations, so we can learn more about different viewpoints. 
      1. It would be great if you could investigate if your organisation has been invited to respond to "Interoperability of data processing services". EU commission sent out requests last September: "The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) has commissioned a study on “interoperability of data processing services”. A company called WIK-Consultant GmbH are doing the invitations and so on. We would like to know who from the automotive industry is involved in this to be able to understand different viewpoints better, so we make an informed proposal. We do not aim to unify the OEM's message, we just want to understand more. I assume this request could have ended up at the CIO/CDO/ legal/ compliance/ CISO or other department.
      2. Contact has been made with the leader of this study, hope to get more information to share with the team.
   2. Workshop on data points using VSS.
      1. The list will be published on GitHub. Daniel Eriksson working on the ReadMe and license agreement clearing, and then it will be become public with the help of Paul Boyes 
   3. We agreed on adding more signals, and their VSS equivalence, if existing (see added lists in the slack channel). Proposal that any required VSS updates should be discussed with Sebastian Schildt, who has previously driven this topic. 
   4. Discussion about the purpose of having a list of data points: 
      1. the purpose is not to demand or make data points mandatory, they only serve as examples
      2. the real benefit of VSS needs to highlighted, preferably in the text that is being written as proposal. Kai Hudalla to draft example and discuss with Nils Lagerqvist what to bring into that deliverable
4. TBA 
5. Next meeting

March 26, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
   1. Report out from the EC DG CNECT workshop:
      Decision to start with general "PaaS"-level standards like authentication etc. No Industry vertical-specific standards yet. Will use CAMSS for assessing standards CAMSS | Interoperable Europe Portal.
      Test run of assessing 114 standards within App Development, IAM, API Mgmt approved 17 standards related to cloud interop and 10 standards to be assessed against EU Data Act criteria.
      Intention seems to be that any approved standard will be a mandatory standard within given field.
      Both AWS and SAP did good interventions pointing at both good sides and bad sides and lack of description for the centralized repository
   2. Discussion on next step, Christina proposed to look at the 42 data-points from ACEA, this was approved and focus on this for next meeting.
      Connected to this Nils had been able to get his hands on a similar list from VDA dating back to 2023:  
4. TBA 
5. Next meeting

March 19, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
   1. A list of deliveries was shown, please comment and propose changes or additional deliveries 
   2. Github repo up and running but structure etc not verified yet
   3. The workshop meeting regarding the EC DG CNECT on a central repository of harmonized standards for interoperability will be held during March 20. Report out next week.
   4. We (Nils, Christina, and Sonia) need to specify the workshop content for Day 2 of the COVESA AMM in May.
   5. Please, any ideas, contributions, comments in mail, slack, Github 
4. TBA 
5. Next meeting

March 12, 2025 Agenda - Cancelled!

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
4. TBA 
5. Next meeting

March 5, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
   1. No specific work has been done during the past week. 
   2. EU Workshop wrt interoperability standards has been set to March 20 (Nils Lagerqvist to participate from Volvo Cars)
4. Introduction to VISS Ulf Bjorkengren VISS-VISSR-overview.pptx
5. Next meeting

February 26, 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Status ongoing work
   1. Plan of next presentations: 
      1. ACEA representative: Ulf B has asked for more info. Thomas Spreckley (Volvo Cars)/ Ted Guild (Geotab)/ Achim Henkel (Bosch) to contact ACEA Fleet reps. Nils (Volvo Cars) to contact Volvo Cars Legal. The ACEA proposal (seems to go back to as early as 2022). This was discussed in the EC’s Motor Vehicle Working Group (MVWG), no source contact from ACEA available . Question: who can present ACEAs standpoint/ projects et c in this area in a Wednesday work meeting, 
      2. SAE/ ITC: Thomas S & Ted & Achim to present findings for commercial vehicles (add link): March 12

         1. https://www.sae-itc.com/

         2. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OKjlefi6_gGIKYvbZIHdF8Syabj_7AvsiksKBXmT9mc/edit?tab=t.0

      3. Christina Rux Nils Lagerqvist contact Philippe Favreau from Ampere to ask about possibilities to do a presentation
4. Introduction to VSS Sebastian Schildt 
5. Next meeting

19 February 2025 Agenda

1. Compliance statement
2. Introduction
3. Additional feedback from information sessions
4. Plan the work
   1. Short-term
      1. Start writing COVESA statement about recommendation by OEMs to EU about interoperability standards
         1. who: project managers start writing, presenting updates in work meetings
         2. tooling: GitHub
   2. Plan presentations for next meetings (Wednesdays, 3-4 pm, CET)
      1. General intro to VSS: Feb 26th, ask Eric Jaegervall/ Adnan Bekan/ Sebastian Schildt about who can present
      2. General intro to VISS 3.0: March 5, Ulf Björkengren
      3. ACEA: Ongoing work in this area, promoting/ recommending VSS and interoperability standards? 
      4. French initiative PFA Platform Automobile
      5. Japanese initiative: Ouranos https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2023/0429_001.html
      6. Mobility Data Space
      7. FMS
      8. Consent management: 
         1. Using VSS in consent mgmt: Aiden Auto

12 February 2025 Agenda

Presentation by Nils Lagerqvist and Christina Rux about the scope and plan for this new project:

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28th January 2025 Agenda

• Participants:
  • Nils Lagerqvist (Volvo Cars)
  • Christina Rux (WirelessCar)
  • Adnan Bekan (BMW)
  • Paul Boyes (COVESA)
  • Richard Fernandes (GM)
  • Stephen Lawrence (Renesas)
  • Steve Crumb (COVESA)
  • Swen Schisler (Endava)
  • Ted Guild (Geotab)
• Agenda:
  
  • Charter
    
    • Agreed
  • Lead Responsibilities
    • Chairs to create agenda, run and record meetings moving forward 
  • Next steps
    • Kickoff/Information meetings (Feb 5 and Feb 12) to the COVESA Community
      • Paul Boyes to setup
      • Christina Rux Sonia Biswas Nils Lagerqvist to present the project
    • Start work/create outline for initial deliverable and how to iterate toward due date of May 1:  "A report from negotiations with the EU Commission that Vehicle Signal Specification and Vehicle Information Signal Specification may be used to implement the EU Data Act and its future legislation" Sonia Biswas Christina Rux Nils Lagerqvist