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[heather flanagan <>]

Hi all -

During the iPlant meeting last week, it became obvious that we really need to think about coming to a consensus on the terminology we use when we're talking about CO's and CMP's.  The issues around what exactly the following terms mean and/or how they differ, given the different uses in different contexts, was something we promised to think about (and hopefully resolve) in the next few weeks.

* roles versus groups, 
* workflow and business process, 
     ** we're talking about the flow of person information, but workflow means something else at iPlant
* CO's within CO's (organizations? sub-CO's?), 
     ** iPlant is going to want to set up a platform for partner CO that are separate but equal (sometimes) in the COmanage platform - what do we call them?
* auditing, metering, and throttling
     ** there is a need to build in limits to how much data can flow to an API, to an app, to a data store; this could be part of an audit process, part of a metering process...
* home organization/institution versus CO identity
     ** when a user comes in to the system, and they can see the information their IdP provided about them, they would expect that to be called... what? Their home institution? But what if they are coming in from an OpenID provider?  Call it their home organization? But what if they think of the CO as their home organization?  It gets confusing.

This is going to be a topic for our call next week, but it wouldn't break my heart to have us chat about it a bit via email first. Please feel free to offer up your opinions, or think about this in prep for next week's call.

Thanks!

-heather f.