Exchange of relevant operational data and information between U‑space service providers and air traffic service providers in accordance with Article 7(3)
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/664
1. The exchange of information shall be ensured through an agreement on a service level laying down the quality of information and through the exchange model used for the relevant operational data and information.
2. The exchange model shall:
a. enable the management and distribution of information in digital format;
b. describe the exchanged information features, their properties, attributes, data types, and associations;
c. include data constraints and validation rules;
d. apply a standard data encoding format;
e. provide an extension mechanism by which groups of users can extend the properties of existing features and add new features that do not adversely affect standardisation within and across Member States.
3. U-space service providers and air traffic service providers shall use a recognised encryption method.
4. U-space service providers and air traffic service providers shall use a common secure interoperable open communication protocol.
AMC1 Point 2 of Annex V Exchange of relevant operational data and information between U-space service providers and air traffic service providers in accordance with Article 7(3)
ED Decision 2022/022/R
(a) The information exchange among the USSPs should consider Annex A to EUROCONTROL ‘Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile’, edition 1.1, published on 5 July 2020.
(b) USSPs should document the services that facilitate the information exchange referred to in Article 3(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) 2021/664 as well as the related services regarding the safe provision of services, and should adhere to EUROCONTROL ‘Specification for SWIM Service Description (SD)’, edition 2.0, published on 15 March 2022.
(c) The documentation of all services that facilitate information exchange should be made available to the public.
(d) Compliance with points (a) and (b) should be directly measured against the requirements listed in the respective documents (Yellow Profile and published service descriptions).
AMC1 Point 3 of Annex V Exchange of relevant operational data and information between U-space service providers and air traffic service providers in accordance with Article 7(3)
ED Decision 2022/022/R
To be secure, the exchange of relevant operational data and information between USSPs and ATSPs should comply with the technical considerations of Annex A to the latest version of EUROCONTROL ‘Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile’, edition 1.1, published on 5 July 2020.
GM1 Point 3 of Annex V Exchange of relevant operational data and information between U-space service providers and air traffic service providers in accordance with Article 7(3)
ED Decision 2022/022/R
ENCRYPTION METHOD — TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY
To ensure data security and privacy for communication over the internet, transport layer security may be used to encrypt the communication between web applications and servers. USSPs and ATSPs may use the transport layer security 1.2 version of the SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile.
Transport layer security 1.2 compliance covers:
(a) key exchange algorithms (RSA, DH, ECDH, DHE, ECDHE, PSK),
(b) authentication/digital signature algorithm (RSA, ECDSA, DSA),
(c) bulk encryption algorithms (AES, CHACHA20, Camellia, ARIA), and
(d) message authentication code algorithms (SHA-256, POLY1305).
AMC1 Point 4 of Annex V Exchange of relevant operational data and information between U-space service providers and air traffic service providers in accordance with Article 7(3)
ED Decision 2022/022/R
The infrastructure that supports the exchange of information between USSPs and ATSPs should comply with the latest version of EUROCONTROL ‘Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile’, edition 1.1, published on 5 July 2020.