Authentication Overview — Proposed Guide

Authentication Overview: Authentication establishes the caller identity; authorization determines what that caller may do. A future Remizen design would…

Overview

Authentication establishes the caller identity; authorization determines what that caller may do. A future Remizen design would need both before exposing organizational or financial resources.

Key concepts

Bind a principal to an organization and a defined permission set. User sessions and machine credentials have different lifecycle and revocation requirements.

Implementation considerations

This page does not configure an identity provider or assert that a public API authentication system exists. Determine the trust boundary before choosing credential formats.

Illustrative data model

This local fixture shows a possible representation for the concepts above. It is not an endpoint response, production configuration or a claim that the described capability is implemented.

{
  "reference_only": true,
  "topic": "Authentication Overview",
  "principal_id": "principal_example_123",
  "organization_id": "org_example_123",
  "scope": [
    "expenses:read"
  ]
}

Design review checklist

• Document which organization owns the authentication overview representation and which actor may view or change it.
• Test the boundaries of principal id, organization id, scope using synthetic values, including missing or inconsistent references.
• Before future implementation, obtain an approved contract and review failure behavior. This documentation does not authorize production activation.

Proposed data types

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