4 General description

24.5473GPPIdentity management - Service Enabler Architecture Layer for Verticals (SEAL)Protocol specificationRelease 17TS

Identity management is a SEAL service that provides the identity management related capabilities to one or more vertical applications. The present document enables a SEAL identity management client and a VAL server to communicate with a SEAL identity management server. The SEAL identity management server authenticates the VAL user’s identity by verifying the credentials provided by the VAL user. When the VAL user is authenticated it is provided with an access token which is used for accessing different SEAL services.