The Gaia-X Trust Framework collects the evolution in the development of the specifications documents and components defined in the three pillars of Gaia-X.
The functional specifications describe concepts at a high level. The technical architecture document describes what a federation is, while the policy rules document contains the common set of policies and rules which a federation has to comply with.
The technical specification documents describe the minimum set of attributes and rules that participants must provide to act according to the framework defined by Gaia-X, as well as how the software components within the different areas behaves.
According to these specifications, the Gaia-X development teams themselves, with the help of the community, implement software artifacts that, executed at the infrastructure layer, offer the necessary functionalities to work in a Gaia-X compliant data space.