Authorization

Full Title or Meme

An action that will give a user an Access Token to a protected resource.

Context

• Previously Authorization was considered to be the second step after the user had been Authentication
• The challenge of Authorization can be modeled as a decision theory where Authorization of access is granted after the Authorization service has evaluated the Claims presented and made a single decision about access where the Identity of the Subject is assumed to haven been appropriately Authentication. In the case of a failed Authorization the Subject was typically given instructions on the appropriated manual procedures to be follow to gain access to the resource.
• In the long term game theory would be a better model

Bayesian Identity Proofing provides the means for a collection of authentication and verification steps to be validated.