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Hi,

There are several possibilities regarding the Context Information Monetization. At this moment, it is possible to use the accountable service plugin with our accounting proxy. You have documentation on this in readthedocs:

http://business-api-ecosystem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins-guide.html#accountable-service

This solution allows you to monetize IoT data represented as a NGSI v2 query (A URL). Nevetheless, this solution is quite ad-hoc since the accounting proxy has its own authorization mechanism based on a local database (what user has acquired what). Additionally, this software is intended to offer services under a pay-per-use model

On the other hand, the ongoing work (The features we have created for this release) is integrating the Business Framework with the security architecture typically used with the Context Broker (Keystone + PEP + PDP). In particular, we are creating a plugin able to manage keystone roles bound to a XACML policy, so customers are granted access to the acquired NGSI resources.

This solution is more production oriented and allows more flexibility in what is sold.

We will have ready the first step of this by this month (the related biz plugin is here: https://github.com/FIWARE-TMForum/biz-secured-orion-plugin). This initial version will allow to sell Context Data under one time payments and subscription models.

Next month we will be providing the accounting part intended to support the pay-per-use. Next release we will be focusing in integrating this new stuff with CKAN, so users acquiring a context dataset in CKAN will be granted access in the underliying context broker (thats the feature ticket you have seen)

I hope this info is useful for you, let me know if you need a deeper view in something.

Best regard, Francisco

Hi,

There are several possibilities regarding the Context Information Monetization. At this moment, it is possible to use the accountable service plugin with our accounting proxy. You have documentation on this in readthedocs:

http://business-api-ecosystem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins-guide.html#accountable-service

This solution allows you to monetize IoT data represented as a NGSI v2 query (A URL). Nevetheless, this solution is quite ad-hoc since the accounting proxy has its own authorization mechanism based on a local database (what user has acquired what). Additionally, this software is intended to offer services under a pay-per-use model

On the other hand, the ongoing work (The features we have created for this release) is integrating the Business Framework with the security architecture typically used with the Context Broker (Keystone + PEP + PDP). In particular, we are creating a plugin able to manage keystone roles bound to a XACML policy, so customers are granted access to the acquired NGSI resources.

This solution is more production oriented and allows more flexibility in what is sold.

We will have ready the first step of this by this month (the related biz plugin is here: https://github.com/FIWARE-TMForum/biz-secured-orion-plugin). This initial version will allow to sell Context Data under one time payments and subscription models.

Next month we will be providing the accounting part intended to support the pay-per-use. Next release we will be focusing in integrating this new stuff with CKAN, so users acquiring a context dataset in CKAN will be granted access in the underliying context broker (thats the feature ticket you have seen)

I hope this info is useful for you, let me know if you need a deeper view in something.

Best regard, regards, Francisco