Appendix
Role Relationships
Overview of mandatory (M) and optional (O) relationships between roles (release 23.09)
Role Relationships
Overview of mandatory and optional relationships between roles.
| Relationship | Description |
|---|---|
| IAM-Sync | The IdP is a service responsible for storing and verifying user identities. Its objective is to enable user access to all IAMs of Catena-X operators as soon as they onboard themselves and receive a user in an IAM. Achieving this requires synchronization of each IAM with every other one, a process known as Identity-Sync, which involves both regular users and technical clients. |
| Integration | Technical integration is required to use Core Services Section B of the CSP-B. The other parties must have access to the services to be able to offer their services. The technical integration refers to an API. This includes documentation, access data, definition of commercial aspects and SLAs. To fully utilize Core Services B of the CSP-B, it is required to perform technical integration with the related APIs. This integration is necessary for enabling other data space participants to access the services to provide their own services. This also includes to provide documentation, access credentials, and define commercial aspects and SLAs for other related services to ensure smooth functionality. |
| Onboarding | The onboarding enables either existing customers in other networks or interested parties to access the Catena-X data space (Trusted Access Point). This is the technical connection and registration of the participants. With the successful completion of the onboarding, the participant is part of Catena-X and can use the network. |
| Certification | When certified by a CAB, the party is audited against the Catena-X standards. These independent third parties ensure security and in-teroperability. |
| Nomination | The nomination process is designed to ensure neutrality and trustworthy execution of selected roles and tasks within the Catena-X ecosystem. The various rights and obligations of the operator are described in the Request for Tender (RFT). |
| Qualification | With the qualification, the Catena-X Association ensures that there is a uniform level of quality and service of the various providers. This creates security and trust for the users of the services. |
| Trademark Rights | With the different qualifications and certifications, the respective parties receive different Catena-X labels. With these they can identify themselves and use them for illustration. The Catena-X Association holds the trademark rights to the labels and Catena-X itself |
| Use | Within Catena-X, a participant can use different offers from service providers (AP, ESP, BAP). These are certified applications. Alternatively, they can certify and operate them by themselves, but then it would not use services. The offers can be SaaS solutions or local deployments. |
Data Exchange based on SSI - Next Steps
Catena-X Policies as part of the Data Exchange (please note the image below covers own as well as managed Wallet solutions; the credential request flow is not displayed since no changes are planned so far)
Further development of the data exchange based on SSI