Book-concept machine application

Digest-bound guide

Identity binding for an entitlement service

How should identity be bound for an entitlement service?

Entitlement service decision guide for identity binding, connecting Maha's implemented machine controls to book concepts without treating the books as technical evidence.

Bounded answer

For entitlement service, bind an entitlement decision to a verified principal, credential fingerprint, tenant or workspace, endpoint, and policy audience. Recompute the binding at use time rather than trusting a display name or caller assertion.

Input contract

What must be fixed first

Principal and tenant identifiers

Credential fingerprint and issuer

Endpoint identity

Audience and policy version

Procedure

Work the decision in order

  1. 1

    Authenticate the credential through its issuer.

  2. 2

    Resolve the principal and tenant relationship.

  3. 3

    Verify endpoint ownership or pinning.

  4. 4

    Bind the audience and requested operation.

  5. 5

    Emit a non-secret identity-binding fingerprint.

Expected outputs

  • Bound identity tuple
  • Non-reversible fingerprint
  • Refusal reason when any edge is unproven

Refuse when

  • Display name substitutes for a verified identifier.
  • Credential, tenant, and endpoint do not share one authority chain.
  • The operation targets an audience outside the credential scope.
  • Eligibility must be recomputed from the active grant rather than copied from a prior response.

Questions this guide answers

What is the minimum safe identity binding for an entitlement service?

For entitlement service, bind an entitlement decision to a verified principal, credential fingerprint, tenant or workspace, endpoint, and policy audience. Recompute the binding at use time rather than trusting a display name or caller assertion.

Which identity fields must remain bound for an entitlement service?

Preserve principal, offer, grant, scope, and expiry; refuse the operation when any edge is missing or belongs to another lifecycle.

What should happen on an exact replay?

Return the original bounded decision or result without consuming quota, delivering, or acknowledging a second time.

What role does the linked book play?

It contributes a conceptual framing for boundaries, resilience, or governance. It is not evidence that the technical control exists or works.

What does this guide not establish about an entitlement service?

Eligibility must be recomputed from the active grant rather than copied from a prior response.

Limits

  • Eligibility must be recomputed from the active grant rather than copied from a prior response.
  • The linked book supplies a conceptual lens only; the operational contract and implementation remain the authority for machine behavior.
  • This guide does not authorize production mutation, payment, deployment, or access to a private evidence corpus.