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Re: Service Identity (Re: Machine Identity)





Jeroen Massar wrote:
Balazs Lengyel wrote:
IMHO virtualization, and programs like VmWare are one example where it is hard to say what are you trying to identify. The physical box or the virtual machine?

One should identify the *service*

Clearly there are cases where it is, in fact, a physical machine that is of interest. But your point is quite well taken. Most scenarios care about an abstraction, not something physical.

Whether that is a logical process, a logical application, a logical host, or an "organization" becomes the question.

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