GF.Permission Register

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This is a Generic Function document GF Permission Register Version: 0.3 OIAr logo
Document type: Generic Function Owner:

J.A.H. Schoonderbeek



Description

This Generic Function belongs to Working Area Middleware. This function offers a means to store and publish permissions (technical representations of business rules about infrastructural actions like reading or writing information). It usually accompanies a Permission Validation function.
Note that for many systems, its permissions are written in a format specific to that system: the capabilities of a Permission Register with respect to the kinds of permissions it can handle are hard-coded. This means that if a Permission Register (and Permission Validation) facility is positioned in an infrastructure landscape to authorize access to a set of resources, it cannot automatically be assumed fit to also authorize access to a new, different set of resources. E.g. a Permission Register that can hold s access control lists for web URIs cannot be assumed to also be able to hold access rules for a mail application.

Permission Register is modelled separately from Permission Validation for two major reasons:

  • to account for the security aspects (both in the sense that a Permission Register itself must be properly secured, and that positioning a Permission Register in an infrastructure overview serves as a focal point for security considerations), and
  • because the permissions that can be stored in a particular Permission Register instance are inherently limited to a specific set of actions for a specific (type of) infrastructure resource (as described above).

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Generic Patterns using this Generic Function

The following Generic Patterns use this function:

Semantic query
Semantic query
Applied PatternOwnerMaturity
Authentication & AuthorizationJ.A.H. Schoonderbeek3

Applied versions of this Generic Function

The following variants of this function have been defined:

Semantic query
Semantic query

No Applied Pattern based on this Generic Pattern (yet)