scope:

This Recommendation describes an authorization framework for home networks, which includes a number of home network resources such as home network users, three types of home devices, the service servers, the services provided, a variety of applications and the heterogeneous network protocols and middleware for communication and service development.

The scope of this Recommendation covers the authorization framework for home networks as described below:

- Security threats in authorization for the home network.

- Authorization requirements for the home network.

- Relationship between security threats and authorization requirements.

- Classification of authorization entities.

- Authorization model for the home network.

- Authorization mode required while enforcing access control.

The following items are also described in the appendices:

- Authorization methods for the home network.

- Conceptual policy model used in authorizing the home network.

- Service scenario of the authorization mode.

- Use case of the authorization model.