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40+ Disambiguation: "Clients" vs "Client Identities" vs "Service Accounts"
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43+ There are two different meanings for the word "client", from different domains.
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45+ Conventionally, a library's adapter for a web API is a "client".
46+ In the SDK, we primarily use the word "client" to refer to these API connectors,
47+ as in ``TransferClient ``, ``GroupsClient ``, etc.
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49+ OAuth2 calls an application registered with the service a "client".
50+ A "Client Identity" is a Globus Auth concept which uses this meaning of
51+ "client".
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53+ As a result of this ambiguity, this documentation will prefer to refer to
54+ "Client Identities" as "Service Accounts", which is the term which is used in
55+ other Globus documentation and the web interface.
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