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Subject: Organizations and Targets...


In provisioning an "Organization" may mean different things. The term is used to mean a company, but is also used to main an hierarchical structure (although sometimes the term  organizational unit is often used for that). For the purpose of this discussion I will use the term organization to mean hierarchical structure.
 
For provisioned objects that are two ways in which organizational membership can be expressed; by containment and by reference. Both concepts can be supported implicitly in SPML 1.0. To support the concepts explicitly in SPML 2.0 two elements are needed; the notion of an explicit container and the notion of an explicit reference to an organization. If organizations are themselves PSOs, then a PSO-ID as a reference could be used to represent the reference to the organization, and the PSO itself could be the container.
 
So all this is needed for explicit support of organizations is:
 
1) PSO Container - semantics indicating that a PSO contains other PSOs
2) PSO Reference - one PSO having a refernce to another PSO (note that this is already a requirement for SPML 2.0)
 
If these concepts are added to support organizations, they could also be used to support targets as well. Targets are in essence PSO containers. Both organizations (when indicated by containment instead of reference) and targets could be represented by PSOs that explicitly contain other PSOs.
 
Jeff Bohren
OpenNetwork Technologies


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