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Registry, after assessment by SIF. Security rules
Access control mechanisms as implemented by each service provider. For example, access to EO-1 and SPOT imagery is controlled by the respective service providers.
Authority rules for privileges and
permissions Each service provider manages privileges and permissions to the resources they provide.
Resource usage rules Users of resources are expected to abide by rules set by the service provider for example,
copyright and intellectual property Transfer rules,
GEO Task DA-06-01, as the International Council for Science ICSU, has drafted a White Paper that provides an overview of international data sharing laws, principles, and policies.
The white paper, which shall be presented at the 5th GEO Plenary meeting in Beijing in November 2008, recommends a draft set of implementation guidelines for the GEOSS Data
Sharing Principles as outlined in the GEOSS 10-Year Implementation Plan.
Domain rules Consortium coordinated by the Group on Earth Observations GEO
Important use cases Practical use cases were described in the GEOSS Common Infrastructure and the Core
Architecture Implementation Report. A generic series of use cases encompassing these practical uses cases have been designed in considering different actors see next paragraph
The GEO Web Portal allows service providers to register components and services. A user is able to discover contributed services or components through the GEO Web
Portal The GEO Web Portal accesses the GEOSS Component and Service Registry to
retrieve metadata about contributed EO and related services. The GEOSS Component and Service Registry references interoperability
arrangements registered in the GEOSS Standards and Interoperability Registry. The GEO Web Portal links to GEONETCast and external community resources.
The Clearinghouse is routinely updated with contents of the Service Registry. The GEO Web Portal, Community portals and other clients search the
Clearinghouse through a catalogue service interface at a frequency dependent upon user requests
The Clearinghouse is searched through a combination of 1 harvested metadata held in a local cache and 2 distributed searches to remote catalogues at the time of the users
search
Table 3: Enterprise Viewpoint of GEOSS