3. Participant

A Participant is a Legal Person or Natural Person, which is identified, onboarded and has a Gaia-X Self-Description. Instances of Participant neither being a legal nor a natural person are prohibited.

classDiagram class Participant { <<abstract>> } Participant <|-- LegalPerson Participant <|-- NaturalPerson

Architecture Document defines three roles a Participant can have within the Gaia-X ecosystem (Provider, Consumer, and Federator), which are not yet part of Trust framework and are to be defined in future releases.

For legal person the attributes are

Version Attribute Cardinality Trust Anchor Comment
1.0 registrationNumber 1 State Country’s registration number which identify one specific company.
1.0 headquarterAddress.country 1 State Physical location of head quarter in ISO 3166-1 alpha2, alpha-3 or numeric format.
1.0 legalAddress.country 1 State Physical location of legal registration in ISO 3166-1 alpha2, alpha-3 or numeric format.
1.0 leiCode 0..1 gleif Unique LEI number as defined by https://www.gleif.org.
1.0 parentOrganisation[] 0..* State A list of direct participant that this entity is a subOrganization of, if any.
1.0 subOrganisation[] 0..* State A list of direct participant with an legal mandate on this entity, e.g., as a subsidiary.

Consistency rules

3.2 Natural person

To be defined in a future release.