This document states the minimum requirements, recommendations, permissions and possibilities for ensuring interoperable web services from an accessing party°s perspective. The document:

°°°° states requirements on the structure and format of resources;

°°°° defines the concept of resource identifiers (direct and correlated);

°°°° provides different resource categories (e.g. anonymous, pseudonymized, technical, and personal resources);

°°°° provides different approaches on how to bundle shareable resources (e.g. resource group or container);

°°°° contains guidelines on how to define the unique resources of an individual application;

°°°° defines the entities and roles, necessary for granting an accessing party access to resource owner°s resources;

°°°° states requirements on how an accessing party accesses resources, including requirements on how to use the defined and referenced technologies, see Table°1.

See Annex°A for additional information about roles and responsibilities covered by ISO 20078 series.