The document discusses authorization and implementing authorization policies. It begins by stating that authorization is an important but complex task that every application needs. It then discusses common approaches like ACLs, RBAC, IAM and their tradeoffs. The document introduces Open Policy Agent (OPA) as a general purpose policy engine that can support multiple models and decouples policy decisions from enforcement. It provides an example of how OPA could be used to implement an authorization policy for a pet database service and demos this integration.