RPaM Ontology Glossary

The following list of concepts have been identified through the analysis of the RPaM Business Domain.

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Each entry of the glossary represents a capital concept of the business domain and the ontology.

For more details on the properties of a concept please visit the conceptual diagrams in the RPaM GitHub wiki.

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A natural person, a legal person or a system.


Source:  RPaM

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An electronic process that enables the electronic identification of a natural or legal person, or the origin and integrity of data in electronic form to be confirmed.


Additional Information

See Article 3, Definitions, of the eIDAS Regulation.

Source:  eIDAS Regulation


An electronic process that enables an agent to access and use a system after checking that the agent, or the one represented by the agent, has the right to use it.


Additional Information

eAuthorisation occurs after previous eIdentification and eAuthentication in that system. Agents that are authorised can be natural persons or systems. Agents that act on behalf of a natural or legal persons may need a mandate.

Source:  RPaM


A condition that needs to be answered to evaluate whether a user has the right to use a system.


Additional Information

In the context of RPaM, eAuthorisation Criteria may contain a tuple composed of an Information Requirement and a Constraint used to evaluate the right of a mandatee to use a Service.Both the Information Requirement and the Constraint are optional elements.The answer to the criterion is normally expected from an authority, e.g. an offiicial Mandate Registry or Management System.

Source:  Adapted from the definition of the Criterion by the Core Criterion and Evidence Vocabulary


A set of interrelated information representing the facts, data, or opinions, in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, or audio-visual forms that the capability exchanges with other capabilities to support the execution of value streams.


Source:  ISA2 (SEMIC internal definition)


Electronic identification means the process of using person identification data in electronic form uniquely representing either a natural or legal person, or a natural person representing a legal person.


Additional Information

See Article 3, Definitions, of the eIDAS Regulation.

Source:  eIDAS Regulation


Data in electronic form which is attached to or logically associated with other data in electronic form and which is used by the signatory to sign.


Additional Information

See Article 3, Definitions, of the eIDAS Regulation.

Source:  eIDAS Regulation

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A body of persons or an entity (as a corporation) considered as having many of the rights and responsibilities of a natural person.


Source:  Merriam-Webster

M ↑

Record that describes the terms under which a mandator grants a representation power to a mandatee.


Additional Information

Mandates are registered in Mandate Management Systems (e.g. authoritative Mandate Registries). When the creation and registration of the mandate is not performed by the represented person his or her explicit consent is required. The consent of the mandatee is also frequently required. Special situations where the represented person does not consent may occur, too, e.g. when the person is incapacitated and the mandate is created by a intermediary agent.

Source:  REA, Registro Electrónico de Apoderamientos, Spain


An eBusiness Document used by the Service Provider to ask for one or more mandates aimed to authorise a user that is trying to use its Service(s).


Additional Information

The Mandate Request specifies mainly the data that will be needed to find one or more mandates with the information needed to authorise the access of the user.

Source:  RPaM


An eBusiness Document used by the Mandate Management System as an answer to a Mandate Request.


Additional Information

The Mandate Response contains the mandate(s) and optional additional information necessary to authorise a user in a relying service provider system.

Source:  RPaM


An agent that can act on behalf of another agent using a mandate.


Source:  RPaM


A repository of mandates that are accessible by electronic means.


Additional Information

In the context of RPaM these are normally authoritative registries. Hence, in RPaM, they are also called "eMandate Registries".

Source:  RPaM


An agent that grants one or more powers to another agent via a mandate.


Source:  RPaM

N ↑

A human being as distinguished from a person (as a corporation) created by operation of law.


Source:  RPaM

P ↑

A natural and/or legal person.


Additional Information

In the context of RPaM, the term "person" is used to refer to any type of person, i.e. natural or legal person.

Source:  RPaM


The capacity to act.


Additional Information

This refers normally to the power of the person that "owns" the power, which in the context of RPaM this is the "represented person".

Source:  RPaM

R ↑

The capacity to act on behalf of a person.


Source:  RPaM

S ↑

An organisation, public or private, that provides an online service.


Additional Information

In the context of RPaM these are normally public administrations online that rely on the information contained in a mandate issued by an authoritative Mandate Management System.

Source:  RPaM

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