Page Audience: IAM designers, developers, and consumers.
Page Purpose: Describe an important design pattern for middleware services.
Document Status: DraftIncomplete draft
There are many kinds of entities that we wish to identify, describe, manage, and share among multiple business functions and application systems at an institution: people, groups, departments, roles, courses, budgets, computers, services, etc. Proper management of information about these entities allows this information to be well-maintained and easily shared among all systems. A registry is a design pattern supporting effective management this kind of information. A successful registry must deal with several issues and choose from a number of deployment options.
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