Terminology

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Terminology/glossary used within the specification

Welcome to the single point of access to GovStack terminology compendium. The following terms and definitions facilitate GovStack communities of practices to communicate under the same terms of reference. Is during your interactions with GovStack documents.

Access

A general term that describes the granting and restriction of the right or opportunity to view or use that which has been developed as part of GovStack.

Accessibility

Accessibility features allow for a wide base of users, specialy the differently abled (visualy impared, limited motor ability, loss of hearing) users to have access to a service. Example of artefact W3C accessibility guidelines

Activity

That which is to be done during a specific session.

Administrator/ Analyst

A registrar or a staff of a registrar who is building a new registry.

Affiliation

The organization (legally registered entity) that a subscriber or resource represents in an event or during an activity.

Agile Project Management

An iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, composed of several interactions of small steps towards the completion of the project. APM aims to promote velocity and adaptability, releasing benefits throughout the project rather than only at the end.

Alert Message

Specific information to be sent for alerting subscribers and resources (e.g. reminders, triggers (start/end of workflows in BBs), etc.).

Alert Mode

A messaging method that is used within a program for each specified target (SMS/email/URI).

Alert Policy

A rule for sending a notification to specified users and applications within a program’s specific session (reminders/triggers/etc.).

Alert Schedule

A list of dates and times at which specific alerts must be sent.

Alert Status

A text that indicates the state of a specific alert (undefined, armed, qualified, sent, acknowledged, failed).

Alpha

In software development, the pre-release early version of a product that is part of a dedicated testing process. Alpha phase generally begins when some core features of a product are complete but the product is partially incomplete.

Ansible

A suite of software tools that enables infrastructure as code. It is open-source and the suite includes software provisioning, configuration management, and application development functionality.

Application Programming Interface (API)

A connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how to build such a connection or interface is called an API specification. The term API may refer either to the specification or to the implementation.

Appointment

The booking of specific subscribers (persons/systems) for a specific session, episode and event.

Asserter

An entity that asserts a claim.

Attribute

A property (data, information) relating to an entity.

Authentication

This is the technical process of establishing that the credentials (i.e. username, password, biometric etc.) provided by a party (user, system, other) are valid and that the party can be granted basic access to system resources with default access rights.

Authentication

The process or action of verifying the identity of a user or process. For the purpose of this project, authentication has been replaced with the term ‘verification’ to allow for a clearer definition and for demarcation with other building blocks.

Authorization

The granting to a subject of privileges or rights for accessing the various resources hosted by a system.

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