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2. Participating Service: It could be a Service Organization (Ex. Collegeboard, ACT, FAFSA etc) or an Application Service Organization (Aggregation portal, school system etc). A user may have local account with this organization. P1 also offers an attribute service that can be viewed as a business opportunity for P1 to contract with potential customers who are interested in retrieving valuable information about the userThe diagrams may refer to the participant service as "Participant" for brevity.
3. CommIT Identity Provider: The central CommIT identity provider supporting account creation and management, unique identifier creation and management, authentication, and issuance of user information to affiliated services.
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