1 Scope
This document states the minimum requirements, recommendations, permissions and possibilities
for ensuring interoperable web services from an accessing party’s perspective. The
document:
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— states requirements on the structure and format of resources;
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— defines the concept of resourceidentifiers (direct and correlated);
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— provides different resource categories (e.g. anonymous, pseudonymized, technical, and personal resources);
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— provides different approaches on how to bundle shareable resources (e.g. resource group or container);
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— contains guidelines on how to define the unique resources of an individual application;
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— defines the entities and roles, necessary for granting an accessing party access to resource owner’s resources;
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— states requirements on how an accessing party accessesresources, including requirements on how to use the defined and referenced technologies, see Table 1.
See Annex A for additional information about roles and responsibilities covered by ISO 20078 series.

