Introduction ----------------- This series describes the circumstances resulting in the need for a centralized authorization policy management system. In doing so, it defines a subset of the problems that must be solved by Triplesec's Authorization Manager. These problems and the various use cases described here resonate the goals of the Apache Triplesec Project with respect to authorization policy.
We're going to talk about applications, identities, permissions, roles, groups, and the assignment of roles to individual identities as well as to groups of identities. This will lead us into discussions regarding what these entities are with clear definitions we can agree on and use as the nomenclature for this aspect of Triplesec. Let us try to be as exacting as possible when speaking about these concepts and defining them eventually for use in a glossary section of our Triplesec documentation. Thanks, Alex
