An authorization control framework to enable service composition Takashi Suzuki, Randy H. Katz EECS Department University of California, Berkeley {tsuzuki,

Motivation Demand for customized service provisioning for each individual user  Web service composition Portal Request User Profile Device Profile LocationTime Customized Service Loosely coupled Service components How to manage authorization for a composed service which contains various service components in different administrative domains?  Need an authorization control framework to support flexible and complex service composition.

Example of composed service Customized multimedia content streaming over mobile networks Portal Content Server Edge Server Content Adaptation QoS Manager User User Profile Mobile NW (domain 1) Domain 2 Domain 3 Domain 4 Authorization control function Location Device Credit Preference age

Issues to be solved Various service components are invoked in a session. Protocol between authorization control server and service components should be able to carry various authorization information Existing protocols are designed only for specific services  (e.g., DIAMETER for network access, COPS for QoS control)  A generic authorization control protocol Portal needs to invoke service components beyond its local administrative domain It needs to get many credentials (tickets) from external administrative domains. Or, each service component need to prepare multiple authorization rules for different credentials from external domains.  An authorization control scheme with credential transformation

A generic authorization control protocol Designed to build a common authorization control infrastructure Based on SOAP/XML SOAP  Lightweight protocol for remote service invocation  Firewall-traversal  Independent of underlying transport protocol, or security mechanism XML based language for authorization information  Simple but powerful enough to express complex data structure  By using schema languages, it becomes possible to define common authorization control class methods  New application support by defining new name space without spoiling interoperability UserPortal Authorization control infrastructure 1 Service 1 Policy 3 1,3,5 Service request 2,4,6 Decision request 24 Service Authorization control protocol

An authorization control function Authorization rule tree Authorization Control Function HTTP Server Rule Tree Check SOAP Server Parameter Verification Result XML Parser Credentials, Conditions Service Action DOM Rules SOAP Client HTTP Client Service Component Service Rule1Rule2Rule n Credential 1Credential 2Condition 1Condition 2 Action mAction1 Authorization decision request Authorization decision response Post /AuthorizationDecision HTTP/1.1 Host: Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8" Content-Length: nnnn SOAPACTION: "/AuthorizationDecision" <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV=" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle=" … Example of SOAP message: AuthorizationDecision Request

Example of SOAP message Post /AuthorizationDecision HTTP/1.1 Host: Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8" Content-Length: nnnn SOAPACTION: "/AuthorizationDecision" <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV=" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle=" … (a) AuthorizationDecision Request HTTP/ OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset="UTF-8" Content-Length: nnnn <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV=" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle=" … (b) AuthorizationDecision Response

Domain 2Domain 1 An authorization control scheme with credential transformation Service Action Credential/ Condition c1c1 c1c1 c' 1 e' 1 c2c2 e2e2 Transformation Rule c' 1 c2c2 e2e2 e' 1 Authorization rule hierarchyDynamically generated rule hierarchy Request with local credentials Rule repository Rule repository Credential Transformation Rule ServiceUser Service invocation across domains Authorization control function Authorization control function dynamically converts authorization rule hierarchy, according to credential transformation rules. Then it make a authorization decision based on generated rule. Credentials Decision request with credentials of domain 1

An authorization control function with credential transformation Authorization Decision function Rule Tree Check Parameter Verification Result XML Parser Credentials, Conditions Service, Action DOM Authorization rule Transform Credential transformation rule Base Application specific HTTP Server SOAP ServerSOAP Client HTTP Client Service component Authorization decision request with external credentials Transformation rule described using XSLT Transform XML document (authorization rule) based on XSLT document (transformation rule)

Conclusion Studied an authorization control framework to enable service composition across administrative domains A generic authorization control protocol is needed to support various service components  Designed SOAP/XML-based protocol so that it meets the requirements Proposed an authorization control scheme with credential transform  To reduce overhead of a portal to obtain multiple credentials (tickets) from external administrative domains.  To liberate service providers from preparing multiple authorization rules for different administrative domains. Future work Implement a generic authorization control protocol and authorization control function. Investigate a scalable authorization scheme to support composed services containing many service components.