= Proposal title =

|| '''Date''' || 2009/09/11 ||
|| '''Contact(s)''' || Heikki Doleman, Jose Garcia ||
|| '''Last edited''' || [[Timestamp]] ||
|| '''Status''' ||  	 under construction  ||
|| '''Assigned to release''' || - ||
|| '''Resources''' || - ||

== Overview ==

The GeoNetwork authentication and authorization application is intended to provide these services to all GeoNetwork modules.

=== Proposal Type ===
 * '''Type''': GUI Change, Core Change 
 * '''App''': !GeoNetwork 
 * '''Module''': all

=== Links ===

=== Voting History ===
 * None as yet 

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== Motivations ==
The motivations for these changes are :

1. Scalability

== Proposal == 

Authentication sequence diagram[[BR]]
[[Image(Authentication sequence diagram.jpg)]][[BR]]

Authorization sequence diagram[[BR]]
[[Image(Authorization.jpg)]][[BR]]

Logout sequence diagram[[BR]]
[[Image(Logout sequence diagram.jpg)]][[BR]]

Expiry authorization tokens sequence diagram[[BR]]
[[Image(Expiry authorization tokens.jpg)]][[BR]]


=== Backwards Compatibility Issues ===

== Risks ==

== Participants ==
 * As above