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IVOA Credential Delegation Protocol
Version 1.00

IVOA Working Draft 15 July 2008

Interest/Working Group:
http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/IvoaGridAndWebServices
Author(s):
Ray Plante, Guy Rixon, Giuliano Taffoni
Editor(s):
Matthew Graham, Guy Rixon

Abstract

The credential delegation protocol allows a client programme to delegate a user's credentials to a service such that that service may make requests of other services in the name of that user. The protocol defines a REST service that works alongside other IVO services.

Status of this document

This is an IVOA Working Draft for review by IVOA members and other interested parties.
It is a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time.It is inappropriate to use IVOA Working Drafts as reference materials or to cite them as other than "work in progress".



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