(todo ... basically, those are untouched from 1.0) Ticket Queue (...more?) Requestor (...definition of a requestor .. blahblah) I'm often doing a distinction between "Internal Requestors" and "External Requestors" (see below). The system doesn't make any difference between requestors, but the distinction might be useful to discuss usage patterns, templates and configurations. External Requestor Might be a customer or a potential customer. The External Requestor should be treated as a VIP. (S)he shouldn't need to see too much of RT. The support (s)he gets should be as personal as possible. The external requestor might eventually get access to the Web UI, but only to track her/his own requests. If you're not planning to use RT for handling external customers, all your requestors are probably "Internal Requestors". Watcher Somebody that are "subscribing" to a queue or a ticket (or something differently). Basicly, somebody watching a queue or a ticket should get all updates by email. A requestor is a (special) watcher. Regular Watcher People within the same organization, people that have read access to whole queues. I consider "Regular Watchers" as well as "Internal Requestors" as more robust and capable human beeings than the fragile customers. We don't mind letting them get entagled with RT, and we let them access the Web UI. They can live with beeing just the Cc or Bcc at an email. Internal Requestor An Internal Requestor is usually internal to the company. He might be 1st line support sending matters to tech support or similar. Might be an internal employee sending matters to tech support (or even 1st line support if he's not sure where to send matters). It might also be that "ordinary" requestors actually might be treated as intelligent human beeings rather than VIPs, i.e. in open source projects ... we'll still call them "Internal Requestors" as they don't need the special VIP treatment.