Regulatory and Industry Initiatives Reading List

A non-exhaustive list of industry standards and regulations/regulatory plans that one could read through if they are trying to get a comprehensive picture of what it takes from the non-technical standpoint to interoperate existing productive systems in finance, trade and more.

While these documents are not dealing with technological problems, even just the awareness of their existence could still add tremendous value to someone who is looking to implement some sort of integration/interoperability between different DLTs or a DLT and any pre-existing centralized system.

MICA European crypto assets regulation (coming into force by 2023)

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52020PC0593

Pilot Regime for DLT market infrastructure

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020PC0594&from=EN

Paperless trade framework (UN / UNESCAP more on APAC now but supposed to expand in EU) for bilateral cooperation

https://readiness.digitalizetrade.org/

ICC Digital Standard Initiative (Private sector)

https://iccwbo.org/media-wall/news-speeches/digital-trade-standards-initiative-launches-under-the-umbrella-of-icc/

BAFT Digital Ledger Payment Commitment - Technical and Business Best Practices (Private sector - Banking Industry)

https://www.baft.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/baft-dlpc-technical-bps-v1-1.pdf

https://www.baft.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/baft-dlpc-business-bps-v1-1.pdf

DCSA Digital Container Shipping Association (Private sector - shipping industry)

https://dcsa.org/dcsa-publishes-standards-for-the-bill-of-lading/

MSB Networked Supervision

https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2021/nr-occ-2021-2.html

OCC Interpretative letter on the use of DA for payments

https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2021/nr-occ-2021-2a.pdf

Open Digital Asset Protocol from IETF (Thanks to Rafael Belchior for these)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hargreaves-odap/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-belchior-gateway-recovery/

There are some more standards in section 6.2 of https://deepai.org/publication/a-survey-on-blockchain-interoperability-past-present-and-future-trends