IPND Help Centre: Users/Actors

Users/Actors

Each category of Actor also defines a class of organisation entitled to access the IPND Web Portal. Each class of organisation is associated with one or more human users.

There are five classes of organisation that can access the Web Portal, these are:

  • IPND Data Providers
  • IPND Data Consumers
  • IPND Secondary Data Consumers
  • IPND Carriage Service Providers (CSP)
  • IPND Manager
  • Regulator

An organisation can also be nominated as being both an IPND Data Provider and IPND Data Consumer.

Access to the portal will be by individual users (people) that are associated with an organisation that belongs to each of these classes.

Actor Description
IPND Manager Refers to the organisation managing the IPND (Telstra)

IPND Manager User Refers to an individual user (person) who is associated with the IPND Manager organisation. A Manager User may access data associated with all organisations and users.
An IPND Data Provider User can only access data associated with the corresponding IPND Data Provider and may be constrained to a subset of the file sources available to the IPND Data Provider.

IPND Data Provider Refers to an organisation that directly provides data to the IPND via one or more file sources

IPND Data Provider User Refers to an individual user (person) who is associated with an IPND Data Provider. There may be multiple IPND Data Provider Users associated with a single IPND Data Provider.
An IPND Data Provider User can only access data associated with the corresponding IPND Data Provider and may be constrained to a subset of the file sources available to the IPND Data Provider.

IPND Data Consumer Refers to an organisation authorised to directly consume IPND data via one or more allocated file sources.

IPND Carriage Service Provider Refers to an organisation that provides data to the IPND via one or more file sources.
IPND Data Consumer User Refers to an individual user (person) who is associated with an authorised IPND Data Consumer. There may be multiple IPND Data Consumer Users associated with a single IPND Data Consumer.
An IPND Data Consumer User may only access data associated with the corresponding IPND Data Consumer.
IPND Data Provider and Data Consumer Refers to an organisation that both provides and consumes data.

IPND Data Provider and Data Consumer User A user of an organisation that is both a Data Provider and Data Consumer. The user can be allocated access to Data Provider information of Data Consumer information or both. If the user has access to both then a default role will ne allocated that will govern the default dashboard view shown to the user. In this case the user will have an oprion to change the default dashboard view for the current session.

IPND Secondary Data Consumer Refers to an organisation that consumes IPND data provided by an IPND Data Consumer. File sources will also be allocated to Secondary Data Consumers in order to identify the source of any user query input.

IPND Data Provider and Data Consumer User An individual user (person) who is associated with an IPND Secondary Data Consumer. There may be multiple IPND Secondary Data Consumer users associated with a single IPND Secondary Data Consumer.

IPND Carriage Service Provider User Refers to an individual user (person) who is associated with an authorised IPND Carriage Service Provider. There may be multiple IPND Carriage Service Provider Users associated with a single IPND Carriage Service Provider.
An IPND Carriage Service Provider User may only access data associated with the corresponding IPND Carriage Service Provider.
Regulator Refers to an organisation, authority or agency performing a regulatory role in the governance of the IPND under the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Regulator User An individual user (person) who has authority to access the IPND on behalf of the Regulator.

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