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Abstract

Access Control Lists (ACLs) control what topics a given username/password pair is allowed to publish and subscribe on. ACLs should be designed with a 'principal of least privilege' model while also considering device management and maintenance.  For example gateways and devices in the field should be limited to publishing and subscribing only on the topics for which they should be expected to.  The same should be true of 'consumer' applications that will be either sending commands to devices in the field or consuming data coming from those devices.

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