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An object, consisting of identifiers and attributes, may be an identity registry entity. \[OSIdM4HEteam:1\]

The above sentence is a simplification of the formal definition of "provisioning" from the OASIS PSTC's SPML 1.0 specification. As noted by the PSTC, the root of the word provision includes the notion of "foresight" for "preparation beforehand". \[2\]

For example, a provisioning engine may transform attributes describing a person from a database table

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Real-time provisioning occurs at the same rate at which changes are made to sources as measured by human perception.

Incremental Provisioning

Wiki MarkupIncremental provisioning is the provisioning of a small (possibly single) positive or negative change in the value of an attribute. \[3\] Provisioning all attributes or all values of an attribute is "full" provisioning.

Resolving all values of an attribute may be expensive. For example, the Everyone group may be both an organization's largest group and the group which changes most frequently. Since it may be expensive to enumerate every member of the Everyone group in source and target systems, it is likely more efficient to add and remove members incrementally as source membership changes.

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- modifies the target object to synchronize it with the source.

Provisioning Engine : 

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Provisioning Engine : Compliance

A desirable feature of a provisioning engine is to verify and report that target objects are properly provisioned.

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Connectors

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References

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\[OSIdM4HEteam:1\] [https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/OSIdM4HEteam/Identity+Registry+Functional+Model]

\[OSIdM4HEteam:2\] [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/4137/os-pstc-spml-core-1.0.pdf]

\[OSIdM4HEteam:3\]  [http://dictionarywww.referencesurfnet.comnl/nl/browse/increment|http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/incrementInnovatieprogramma%27s/gigaport3/Documents/EDS-4%20Provisioning%20Scenarios%20in%20Federations%20Final.pdf]