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Common Building Blocks (Dimensions)
As a further refinement to help us in classifying and prioritizing the use cases, we would like to add a section to each use case describing the building-block features or dimensions that are present in a given use case. The current list of features or dimensions are as follows:
Dimension | Description | Example |
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Nature of protected resource | A description of the sorts of protected resources at hosts in this scenario, and the scope values that might be applicable, ideally with real-life supporting evidence. Protected resources appear to fall on a continuum from API endpoint (such as status updates) to content-oriented (such as photos), and further, typical actions on them may usefully be classified in terms of how RESTful they are. | In the location services scenario @@link, protection of a location service (a set of one or more API endpoints) might involve scope values such as "write location data", "read precise location data", and "read location data at a city level". |
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Nature of policies and claims | A description of the types of policies, and any resulting claims requested, that might be suitable for this scenario and its use cases. @@more re claims | @@ |
Cardinality | An accounting of whether the scenario or any of its use cases necessarily involve multiple instances of any of the UMA entities. | The financial loan scenario @@link by its nature involves a requester having to access multiple protected resources, likely from different hosts. The scenario related to moving resources @@link by its nature involves two different AMs: the user's previously chosen AM and their newly chosen one. This information is often usefully conveyed with an architectural diagram along with descriptive text. |
Colocation | A description of likely cases where real-world applications might want or need to support multiple UMA endpoints. | The health data scenario @@link tends to involve actors that serve as both hosts and requesters. The trusted claims scenario @@link proposes that an application offering AM services might also need to be a requester in order to access the UMA-protected claims of some other ("primary") requester. |
Host-AM relationship | An accounting of how hosts and AM come to meet and trust each other in this scenario or its | use cases. Dynamic discovery might be required or forbidden. AMs and hosts respectively might need to be well-known, or at least dynamically qualified before the connection is made. | The health data scenario @@link might have a short list of approved AMs to which many hosts around the world may need to dynamically connect as soon as a new patient needs medical care. |
Protected resource discovery | A description of the anticipated method(s) by which a requester learns about a resource of interest to them. The methods may have a dynamic element to them or may require reconfiguration. The methods may or may not involve direct human assistance. |
The calendar scenario @@link could mention that most calendar feeds are shared today through URL copying and pasting. |
As a further refinement to help us in classifying and prioritizing the use cases, we would like to add a section to each use case describing the building-block features or dimensions that are present in a given use case. The current list of features or dimensions are as follows:
- Scope: This is the scope of actions that are available to be performed.
- Cardinality: This pertains to the number of participants involved in the use case. For example, how many Hosts and AMs are involved within the use case.
- Nature of host: This dimension pertains to the host being either a host only, or whether it also takes-on the role of a Requestor in some sub-scenario of the use case.
- Dynamism vs Static-ness: This dimension pertains to the Host-AM interaction. It attempts to capture the degree of interactions required between a Host and AM in satisfying the use case scenario. This can range from all participants having been pre-configured with information about each other (very static), to the situation in which the AM and Host must communicate or interact every time A Requester submits a request.
- Resource discovery: This dimension addresses the aspect of the degree to which a new Requestor must learn about available resources.
- Nature of access to protected resource: A description of the sorts of protected resources at hosts in this scenario, and the scope values that might be applicable, ideally with real-life supporting evidence. Protected resources appear to fall on a continuum from API endpoint (such as status updates) to content-oriented (such as photos), and further, typical actions on them may usefully be classified in terms of how RESTful they are. In the location services use-case (see below), protection of a location service (a set of one or more API endpoints) might involve scope values such as "write location data", "read precise location data", and "read location data at a city level".
- Person-to-self: This dimension is closely related to the Nature of Host dimension, and may only occur is rare use cases. It pertains to the situation in which the same entity (user) is required to connect separately to the Host in order to explicitly perform some task under a different role. Thus, although the Host may identify the entity (user) differently on each of these connections, the situation is such that only the same entity (user) can complete this task. Hence this dimension is referred to as person to herself/himself.
- Sharing Models:
*Sharing models* :
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