Governor
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Short Description
A Governor is a role that a party (better: employee of a specific party) performs asit governs a (coherent) set of expectations of that party, within a particular focus.
Within organizations, these [expectations] are typically owned by an organizational unit (which iself qualifies as a party), e.g. a board of directors or a department, and directed at other organizational units. These expectations may link arbitrary organizational units, not just up and down the organizational hierarchy, but also to units at the same organization level, or at other (arbitrary) locations in the hierarchy.
Every focus area, such as finance, security, (regulatory) compliance, etc. typically has its own governance process. This allows for the efficient assignment of governors to the governance process of a specific focal area, e.g. to employees that have relevant "domain knowledge" and background for running such processes.
Within the context of SSI, knowledge- and information governance is a particular topic, and part of the results that are to be created and maintained are the various policies that provide guidance to employees for executing (both design-time and runtime) actions that have some relation with credentials.
We will use the phrase "<topic> governor", where <topic> is a placeholder for a particular topic/domain, to refer to the governor that will govern the expectations of a single party that pertain to that particular topic/domain. For example: "knowledge governor" refers to the governor role that governs the expectations of a single party that pertain to that its knowledge. Similarly, we might use "quality governor", "security governor", etc.
Purpose
In order to ensure that expectations (that a party has regarding acertain topic/domain) are being met, or revised if they cannot be met, it is necessary that the party can task employees that have relevant "domain knowledge" with running a governance-process for such expectations, and hence fulfill the role we have called governor
Criteria
A Governor is a role that a party (better: employee of a specific party) performs asit governs a (coherent) set of expectations of that party, within a particular focus.