BDI Technical Roles

Summary

The building block aims to define BDI's technical roles, including Identity Provider, Identity Broker, Association Administrator, Data Owner, Data Service Provider, and Data Consumer. Each role plays a crucial part in managing identity, data control, and service provision within BDI's framework.

Purpose of this building block

The purpose of this building block is to define the technical roles in BDI

BDI defines these technical roles :

• Identity Provider

• Identity Broker

• Association Administrator

• Data Owner

• Data Service Provider

• Data Consumer

Concepts

Role	Description
Identity Provider	The Identity Provider-role is fulfilled by a legal entity whose tooling identifies and authenticates humans (and specifically, Human Data Consumers representing Data Consumers).
Identity Broker	The Identity Broker-role is fulfilled by a legal entity that provides Data Service Providers access to different Identity Providers, and that offers humans the option to choose with which Identity Provider to identify and authenticate themselves.
Association Administrator	Functionary responsible for operating the services of a BDI Association reporting to its Members.
Data Owner	The data Owner is a legal entity who: Has control over data and access to data Controls decisions on Data Sovereignty and Trust Sovereignty Controls authorization policies, representation rules, professional qualification verification of staff and contractors Controls subscription to the Event Pub/Sub Service, and publishing of events to subscribers Controls discovery and endpoints Controls roles assumed by entity
Data Service Provider	A Data Service Provider that acts under supervision and on behalf of the Data Owner
Data Consumer	Requests access to data and/or Representation Register and/or Professional Qualification Register of the Data Owner Controls discovery and endpoints Requests subscription to Event Pub/Sub Service of the Data Owner, receives and evaluates events.

Implementation Considerations

Implementation of the basic BDI mechanisms assumes the existence of these technical roles.

Interlinkages with other building blocks

• Digital Identity

• Authentication

• Authorisation

• Association Register

• Zero Trust Check

Core design decisions

The iSHARE Trust Framework provides a comprehensive description of what iSHARE calls Certified Roles. The Common Roles of the BDI are derived from these descriptions, such as:

• The role of an Authorisation Registry
• The role of Identity Provider

Further reading

https://framework.ishare.eu/is/framework-and-roles

https://dssc.eu/space/BVE/357075333/Data+Sovereignty+and+Trust

https://framework.ishare.eu/is/functional-requirements-per-role