UMA Legal

You can find a description of the overall User-Managed Access proposition Our "elevator pitch":

The User-Managed Access (UMA) technical protocol applies protection policies to "permission tokens". The UMA legal framework maps those permission tokens to licenses as legal devices. This licensing mechanism is valuable to individuals, organizations, legal professionals, and privacy professionals because it allows Alice to license Bob to use her digital resources on her terms.

You can find out more about UMA here: http://tinyurl.com/umafaq.

Part of the UMA WG's work is overtly technical, and part of the work explores other layers of the BLT (business-legal-technical) sandwich. The documents here reflect work linked from this page, dedicated to the Legal subgroup's work, reflect efforts in these other areas, many produced by our ad hoc "legal subgroup".

The overall goal of the this subgroup: Accelerate adoption and reduce inhibitors in a business context.

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