RFC042

Document property	Value
Issue reference	#1+
Document status [draft/final]	Draft

Background and rationale

With RFC028 iSHARE has move to a federated model. This has led to changes in terminology being used for roles throughout the iSHARE Trust Framework and other iSHARE documentation or assets. Additionally, other initiatives like GAIA-X and IDSA and new regulations like the Data Governance Act have come up that have introduced terminology as well.

Proposed change

Purpose

This RFC aims to bring clearance to the terminology used for roles in iSHARE and provide clarity in aligning the terminology with other initiatives and regulations. It proposes the renaming of one iSHARE role and proposes changes to align and clarify documentation.

Description and principles

The roles will be named as follows.

Adhering roles

Current name	New name	Other names currently in use for this role	In GAIA-X	In IDSA	In Data Governance Act
Service Consumer	Service Consumer	Data Consumer	TBD	TBD	Can be a data holder and a data user
Service Provider	Service Provider	Data Provider, Data Node	TBD	TBD	Can be a data holder and a data user
Entitled Party	Entitled Party	Data Owner, Data Holder	TBD	TBD	The DGA uses this role combined with either Service Consumer or Service Provider (depending on which one provides the data) and calls this data holder

Certified roles

Current name	New name	Other names currently in use for this role	In GAIA-X	In IDSA	In Data Governance Act
Identity Provider	Identity Provider	--	TBD	TBD	TBD
Identity Broker	Identity Broker	--	TBD	TBD	TBD
Authorisation Registry	Authorisation Registry	--	TBD	TBD	TBD

Other roles

Current name	New name	Other names currently in use for this role	In GAIA-X	In IDSA	In Data Governance Act
Scheme Owner	Scheme owner	--	TBD	TBD	TBD
Scheme Administrator	Data Space Administrator		TBD	TBD	TBD
Satellite	Data Space Authority	Data Space Coordinator, Scheme Satellite	TBD	TBD	TBD

Impact on the ecosystem

The RFC does not impact the current ecosystem functionally or technically.

Impact iSHARE Foundation (Scheme Owner)

iSHARE Foundation will review all current assets and work on consistent use of roles as defined in this RFC.

• The iSHARE Trust Framework: https://framework.ishare.eu/

• The developer documentation (as an extension of the iSHARE Trust Framework): https://dev.ishare.eu/

• Example implementation in Postman Collections.

• The iSHARE Satellite codebase as developed on: https://github.com/iSHAREScheme/iSHARESatellite

• The implementation of the iSHARE satellite for iSHARE as the scheme owner on https://sat.ishare.eu and https://sat.uat.isharetest.net

• The public website https://www.ishare.eu

• iSHARE Community forum: https://forum.ishare.eu/

• Internal documentation: https://drive.google.com/drive/

• Authorization Registry test implementation: https://ar.isharetest.net/

• The Conformance Test Tool: https://ctt.isharetest.net/admin/account/login, tests listed on https://ctt.isharetest.net/admin/test-cases

• iSHARE test satellite (used for conformance testing): https://scheme.isharetest.net/

• iSHARE test certificate authority: EJBCA Public Web (isharetest.net)

Implementation

Release schedule

The expected implementation time is around 4-6 weeks after deciding on the implementation of this RFC.

Communication

The implementation of this RFC will be actively communicated with the community.