BDI Technical Roles

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.