name: WSC
full_form: Web Service Consumer (as defined by LAP)
context: including WSC, WSPs and DS does usually not interwork with GAA/GBA. A WSC would request end user attributes from a WSP and all the required security aspects would be supported by the DS. Liberty ID-WSF "Authentication Service and Single Sign-On Service Specification" [8] describes procedures so that: 1. A user authenticates to an AS using SOAP-based interface; 2. A user requests a security token to access a particular SP; 3. A user presents the received security token to the SP. This procedure is described in clause 4.3.5 and does not require any further interaction with WSCs, WSPs or DSs. The Liberty ID-WSF Authentication Service may also be used by WSCs to be able to interact with a DS (e.g. when a Liberty ID-FF infrastructure is not available and a WSC needs to interact with a DS in order to discover user attributes). Here the DS would act as a SP that needs to authenticate the WSC. This would be an entity peer authentication rather than a GBA/GAA based end-user authentication.
description: A Web Service Consumer (WSC) is a network function that consumes web services, interacting with other network functions such as Web Service Providers (WSPs) and Discovery Services (DS) to access user attributes and authenticate users.
explanation: The context describes WSC's role in consuming web services, requesting end-user attributes from WSPs, and interacting with DS for security aspects. This classification is based on the architectural description of WSC within the ID-FF/ID-WSF framework, highlighting its interactions with other network functions.
section_title: 4.2	Architectural Description â Use of GBA within ID-FF / ID-WSF
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