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Group Membership Service
Version 1.0

IVOA Working Draft 29 March 2019

Interest/Working Group:
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaGridAndWebServices
Author(s):
Brian Major, Patrick Dowler, Giuliano Taffoni, Adrian Damian, Sara Bertocco, Marco Molinaro
Editor(s):
Brian Major

Abstract

The Group Membership Service (GMS) specification describes a REST interface for determining whether a user is a member of a group. This membership information can be used to protect access to proprietary resources. When an authorization decision is needed, a call to GMS can be made to see if the requesting user is a member of the group assigned to protect the resource and, in turn, grant or deny the user access. Proprietary resources can be any number of things, such as data, metadata or services. Because a single group can be used to protect multiple, potentially distributed resources, GMS enables the creation of groups that represent teams with common authorization rights. GMS offers organizations an interoperable, flexible and scalable way of protecting a heterogeneous set of resources within and outside an origanization.

Status of this document

This is an IVOA Working Draft for review by IVOA members and other interested parties.
It is a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time.It is inappropriate to use IVOA Working Drafts as reference materials or to cite them as other than "work in progress".



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