The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health 73 (GA4GH) is a policy-framing and technical standards-setting organization, enabling the responsible sharing of clinical and sensitive genomic data through both harmonized data aggregation and federated approaches. The discussion about whether human sensitive proteomics data should be subjected to the same access restrictions as sensitive DNA/RNA sequencing data has just started. The PSI will then follow closely the developments of the GA4GH since clearly, some existing standards could be adapted or extended to support proteomics data, if needed. In our view, definitely, it would not make sense to "reinvent the wheel".