iSHARE aims to enable parties to grant other parties or persons access to (parts of) their data or services. Parties within the iSHARE scheme have greatly varying backgrounds, however. Private and public, large and small, different value chains, different geographies, different modalities, etc. For that reason, iSHARE needs to have a flexible way of expressing authorisations.
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- Some parties or contexts require management of authorisations on a very detailed level, e.g. Party A's ERP system (machine) is ONLY allowed to request status updates concerning line X of bill of lading Y;
- Some contexts require less detailed authorisations, e.g. Party A's ERP system (machine) is allowed to request ANY information about ANY (part of a) bill of lading.
Both examples are explained under use cases: fine-grained; coarse-grained.
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