Resource

Full Title or Meme

A part of a Web Site that provides access to service or content on the internet.

Context

• Resources are something typically need to be protecting with Authentication by a Identifier or Attribute Provider - either identity data of your users, or APIs.
• Every resource has a unique name - and clients use this name to specify to which resources they want to get access to.
• The Resource will typically use User Information (aka claims) about a user (name, email address, etc.) to enable Persistence, Recovery and Redress for the user.
• APIs resources represent functionality a client wants to invoke - typically modelled as Web APIs, but not necessarily.