With partial delegation, you can share the responsibility for the administration of a group, the users in the group, and the group resource profiles. Under this scheme, the owner of the group connects one user to the group with JOIN authority and this user connects other users to the group, giving CREATE authority to one user and USE authority to all other users. In this way, the owner of the group can monitor the group, the user with JOIN authority can monitor the users in the group, and the user with CREATE authority can create and maintain the group's data set profiles.

Another way to share administration responsibilities for the group, the users, and the group's resources is as follows: the owner of the group connects one user to the group with CREATE authority and all other users with USE authority. The owner of the group can then monitor the group and the users in the group, and the user with CREATE authority can define and control group data sets.