Administrative domain

An administrative domain is a service provider holding a security repository permitting to easily authenticate and authorize clients with credentials. This particularly applies to computer network security.

This concept is captured by the 'AdminDomain' class of the GLUE information model.[1]

An administrative domain is mainly used in intranet environments.

Implementation

It may be implemented as a collection of hosts and routers, and the interconnecting network(s), managed by a single administrative authority.

Interoperation between different administrative domains having different security repositories, different security software or different security policies is notoriously difficult. Therefore, administrative domains wishing ad hoc interoperation or full interoperability have to build a federation.

gollark: We're not NaN-encoding, apiobee.
gollark: osmarksßstring: a hashmap of index in string→character, where each character can be encoded as UTF-8/16/32 individually, but the characters are all just encoded in floats either way, and the array of buckets backing the hashmap is actually a linked list, the indices are arbitrary ordinals represented as lists of floats or something, and the linked list is actually just a general purpose graph data structure abused as a list.
gollark: Diversity of nulls for, what, multiple error signal purposes.
gollark: Which is a great* benefit.
gollark: All is floats none are safe.

References
  1. http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.147.pdf GLUE Specification v. 2.0 (Open Grid Forum)

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