Architecture & Technology Strategic Partnerships Program

Architecture & Technology Strategic Partnerships Summary

The Architecture & Technology Strategy Board is one of the five management boards established by the Resolution under the Passenger Standards Conference (PSC), which combines the activity of the Passenger Services Conference and Passenger Tariffs Conferences. Each management board is an airline-only group overseeing the strategy and direction of standards development and implementation within a specific business domain. The board has the autonomy to create and disband groups to work on specific areas of standards.

Each board may also have an advisory forum, where Strategic Partners can meet with board member airlines to discuss issues around standards development and implementation.The Architecture & Technology Strategy Board is responsible for interoperability and quality of data exchange standards published under the authority of the Conference; and acts as an architecture and technology strategy advisor to other standards boards and to the steering group.

In addition, the Architecture & Technology Strategy Board manages the methodology for documenting business requirements and developing and generating data exchange standards. It also oversees the maintenance of the Airline Industry Data Model (AIDM); and maintains standards and best practices necessary for consistent and interoperable implementation of data exchange standards and related technologies across multiple business areas supported by the Conference.

Since the Architecture & Technology strategy includes the underlying foundation to the topics included in the other boards, participation in the activities and groups will be granted to Strategic Partners that are members of any of the Shop Order Pay Standards, Plan Standards and/or Settlement and Accounting Standards Areas of Involvement, for no additional fee.

Architecture & Technology Strategic Partner Benefits

Participation in the relevant group(s) below. 

Architecture & Technology Strategic Partner Activities

Groups under each Board may be created or disbanded by the Board at any time, but an up-to-date list of active groups is available online. Access to meetings and working groups are subject to individual group terms of references.

Change Management and AIDM Integration Working Group

The Change Management and AIDM Integration group is responsible for the maintenance of an integrated AIDM intended as a central repository to store business requirements, data and message models; and generate all data exchange specifications including messaging standards, as well as developmental (alpha release) and candidate (beta release) messaging standards. The group also maintains the data modelling methodology applied by the various boards under the PSC to develop data exchange standards through the AIDM. Members of the group should have experience in business and information analysis and architecture.

Identity Management Working Group

The Identity Management group is responsible for developing modern identity management standards, architecture and implementation guide to support the business standards and existing coding regimes. The group works within the guidance of the IATA Digital Transformation Advisory Council, leveraging W3Cs verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers standard as a starting point. Members of the group should be familiar with decentralized identity management technologies and implementations.

Open API Working Group 

The Open API group develop and agree industry data communication standards, best practices and implementation guide, based on open technology standards, including but not limited to REST API (Application Programming Interface), Event API, GraphQL, AsyncAPI standards and best practices, with the focus to ensure consistency and interoperability in the implementation of Data Exchange Standards. Members of the group should have experience in technology architecture and/or information security.

Note: Strategic Partners must join the Plan Standards, Shop Order Pay Standards, Settlement and Accounting Standards, Architecture & Technology, Common Use, Customer Experience & Facilitation, Ground Operations and/or Baggage Services Areas of Involvement in order to attend the PSC as an observer. 

Focus Areas

• Architecture
• Technology 
• Data modelling
• Aviation standards

Designed for

• Aviation industry service providers
• Global Distribution Systems (GDSs)
• Technology providers
• Other suppliers

Please view the full list of Strategic Partnerships Program benefits (pdf).