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This Common Capability covers authorization mechanisms required with respect to Licence Resource Requests. The sole deviation from current standard authorization mechanisms is the type of resource, namely whether or not a user is entitled to use a specific licence server, specific features of the licensed software or whether limits exist with respect to the number of licences.   

In complete analogy possible solutions range from simple locally maintained lists (in the simplest case consisting of authenticated user / license server IP pairs) up to a full integration into identity management systems like Shibboleth or VOMS with explicit requests to home organizations the of users and/or third party licence service providers (LSP) or even requests to Licence Brokers.

The above CC allows a user to:

• Authorize user’s operations with respect to licence related requests.