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- An account will have a unique identifier or token within the Bridge that corresponds with a set of credentials that provide access to the Bridge API
- Each account will be created/initialized by the DDP operating the bridge and the credentials needed to access the account will be provided to the account owner
- There will be a one-to-one relationship between a Bridge account and a single repository (or other) system
- The repository (or other) system accessing the Bridge will have an internally consistent method for ensuring that File IDs provided to the bridge uniquely identify individual bitstreams presented to the bridge for storage
- The Bridge application will ensure that each account is provided an independent namespace for File IDs
To Be Determined
- Method for authentication and authorization. Also need to determine if the same auth methods will be used by the Bridge and the Gateway
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