• Introduction
• Technical analysis
• Issues and recommendations
• European SIF

Harmonization of Services access control

Summary

“Services access control mechanism should be harmonised for GMES CDS, INSPIRE and GEOSS initiatives.”

Classification

Category	User Management
Identifier	ISSUE-UM-003
Type of recommended activity	Further Investigation about the subject
Organisations addressed	GMES CDS Technical Team, INSPIRE Drafting Team, GEOSS Architecture and Data Management.

Additional information

Context	GMES, INSPIRE and GEOSS initiatives have to identify and agree a supported policy standard on which services should expose an interface describing the access restrictions through the same mechanism.
Rationale	The minimum user profile is the user information that the initiatives agree to share and which is necessary to apply the agreed service access control.
Dependencies	None
Further background information	Technology Watch Report - Data Access and Processing [PDF] Comparative analysis report (version 2) [PDF] Comparative Analysis Report (version 2) - Annex Recommendations [PDF]
Main discussion points	None
Roadmap	Consider a recommendation to GMES, INSPIRE and GEOSS initiatives to identify and agree a supported policy standard.