2.5.4.4.2.1 Actors

The actors and their associated interests are as follows:

User: The user's interest is to use the application to access files on a content server.

Application: The application's interest is to consume file reading services by means of the content client.

Content client: The content client's interest is to use client-side protocol components and consume the file services that are offered by the content server and to offer received content to the hosted cache server.

Content server: The content server's interest in this use case is to provide and maintain a secure and consistent File Service, as described in [MS-FASOD], and to provide content metadata.

Hosted cache server: The hosted cache server's interest is to provide two mechanisms: one for to query for the availability of certain content and the other to retrieve content from a content client.