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Multi-tenant gateway: quota and metering

How should quota and metering work for a multi-tenant gateway?

Quota and metering guide for Multi-tenant gateway, with required inputs, ordered checks, refusal conditions, outputs, source roles, and an explicit authority boundary.

Bounded answer

Meter Multi-tenant gateway against a server-defined unit and the exact principal, offer, request digest, and period. Reserve before work, settle from observed use, and make exact replays idempotent.

This guide defines a request-control procedure. It is not evidence that an integration executed, a credential was entitled, or a delivery succeeded.

Input contract

What must be fixed first

Authenticated principal and tenant

Exact resource, tool, method, and endpoint

Active entitlement with scope and expiry

Replay-safe request identifier and content digest

Procedure

Work the decision in order

  1. 1

    Resolve the credential to one active principal.

  2. 2

    Bind the exact Multi-tenant gateway selector and requested capability.

  3. 3

    Evaluate entitlement, quota, expiry, and revocation.

  4. 4

    Perform only the bounded operation or return a reason-coded refusal.

  5. 5

    Commit metering and a digest-bound receipt atomically.

  6. 6

    Acknowledge only the exact receipt produced by this lifecycle.

Expected outputs

  • Reason-coded allow or refuse decision
  • Bounded result or delivery reference
  • Metering and lifecycle receipt

Refuse when

  • Identity, endpoint, selector, or digest is missing or substituted.
  • The grant is absent, expired, revoked, exhausted, or broader than the request.
  • A replay carries different content or lifecycle state.

Subject-specific decision record

What a complete answer would require

Minimum evidence
Authenticated principal and tenant; Exact resource, tool, method, and endpoint; Active entitlement with scope and expiry; Replay-safe request identifier and content digest.
Pass condition
Return reason-coded allow or refuse decision, bounded result or delivery reference, metering and lifecycle receipt only after every required input and ordered check is satisfied.
Current result
No subject-specific result has been produced by this method guide.

Questions this guide answers

How should quota and metering work for a multi-tenant gateway?

Meter Multi-tenant gateway against a server-defined unit and the exact principal, offer, request digest, and period. Reserve before work, settle from observed use, and make exact replays idempotent.

What inputs must be fixed for Multi-tenant gateway?

Authenticated principal and tenant; Exact resource, tool, method, and endpoint; Active entitlement with scope and expiry; Replay-safe request identifier and content digest.

What should a machine return for Multi-tenant gateway?

Reason-coded allow or refuse decision; Bounded result or delivery reference; Metering and lifecycle receipt. Every output remains bound to the exact inputs and decision state.

When must a system refuse Multi-tenant gateway?

Identity, endpoint, selector, or digest is missing or substituted. The grant is absent, expired, revoked, exhausted, or broader than the request. A replay carries different content or lifecycle state.

What does this guide not establish about Multi-tenant gateway?

This guide does not authorize payment, escrow, Production mutation, or private-corpus access. A receipt proves recorded execution or delivery, not factual correctness. Book links provide conceptual framing only and are not technical evidence.

Limits

  • This guide does not authorize payment, escrow, Production mutation, or private-corpus access.
  • A receipt proves recorded execution or delivery, not factual correctness.
  • Book links provide conceptual framing only and are not technical evidence.