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Publish Standard Account Profiles
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| The first real functional task that realm providers must perform is to propose and publish a comprehensive set of data standards, called account profiles, that describe everything services in the realm need to know about users. |
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| For all but the most basic account profiles, services participating in the realm will play a part in defining what does or does not go into the account profile. Often there will be disagreement amongst the represented services, and it’s the realm provider’s responsibility to arbitrate these disagreements and negotiate a final standard. |
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Negotiate Default Stylesheets
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| Not only must the standard define how data is stored in the profile, account providers must be supplied a default XSL stylesheet used to translate the account profile into a human-readable form. Like the standard, this form will need input from the participating services, and the realm provider is responsible for negotiating the final stylesheet. |
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| Finally, the account profile standards and default stylesheets must be published in a secure, reliable, Internet-accessible repository such that they can be used by services and account providers as necessary. |
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