The functional entities for identity management SEAL service are described in the following subclauses.
The identity management client functional entity acts as the application client for vertical applications layer user identity related transactions. The identity management client interacts with the identity management server. The identity management client also supports interactions with the corresponding identity management client between the two UEs.
The identity management server is a functional entity that authenticates the vertical application layer user identity. The authentication is performed by verifying the credentials provided by the vertical applications' user. The identity management server acts as CAPIF's API exposing function as specified in
TS 23.222. The identity management server also supports interactions with the corresponding identity management server in distributed SEAL deployments.