ISO 20078:2021

Description

This document states the minimum requirements, recommendations, permissions and possibilities for ensuring interoperable web services from an accessing party’s perspective. The document:

-    states requirements on the structure and format of resources;

-    defines the concept of resource identifiers (direct and correlated);

-    provides different resource categories (e.g. anonymous, pseudonymized, technical, and personal resources);

-    provides different approaches on how to bundle shareable resources (e.g. resource group or container);

-    contains guidelines on how to define the unique resources of an individual application;

-    defines the entities and roles, necessary for granting an accessing party access to resource owner’s resources;

-    states requirements on how an accessing party accesses resources, including requirements on how to use the defined and referenced technologies, see Table 1.

See Annex A for additional information about roles and responsibilities covered by ISO 20078 series.