Spatial Web Standards Approval
We are thrilled to announce that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) P2874 working group voting members have approved the Spatial Web standards: Hyperspace Modeling Language (HSML) and Hyperspace Transaction Protocol (HSTP).
Standards such as WiFi and Bluetooth are vital for enabling interoperability between different systems and this approval marks an important milestone for the emerging Spatial Web, a hyper-connected, ethically-aligned network of humans, machines, and intelligent systems.
HSML and HSTP enable interoperability, explainability, and governance of intelligent software agents by defining the rules, requirements and restrictions for how agents interact with both digital and physical systems. Standardizing how information is structured and shared enables developers to build agentic software faster and cheaper by reducing the complexity and cost of bespoke integrations and legal compliance. The protocols provide the means for appropriately authorized entities to encode the rules and regulations within their jurisdiction. The Spatial Web standards are designed to address the ethical, legal, and social concerns arising from the development and deployment of AI and autonomous technologies.
“The final approval of this ballot is the culmination of years of work and a monumental step forward in the Spatial Web and the future of computing,” said George Percivall, Distinguished Engineering Fellow at the Spatial Web Foundation and Vice Chair of the Working Group.
The Spatial Web Standards originate from the IEEE’s Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and development began in 2020 as a collaboration between the IEEE-SA and the Spatial Web Foundation (SWF) when the IEEE-SA designated the effort a “public imperative,” typically reserved for humanitarian initiatives that benefit society overall such as telecommunications and nuclear energy.
VERSES has integrated the Spatial Web standards into the foundation of Genius™ so that developers gain the immediate advantage of optimized reliability and dynamically configurable application-level interoperability, explainability, and governability.
Final steps before publication include addressing comments from the non-approval votes and verification by a review committee. Future plans for the working group include developing reference implementations and exploring governance requirements for various industries.
Please join us in congratulating the working group members on their hard work and achievement.