Information regarding Portal user licensing

Hello Experts,
i am looking for some standard SAP documentation ,Article or PDF which describe the Portal users licensing procedure/process in detail.
Also if in production Portal let say there are 1000 users and due to some reasons they are not using Portal frequently their login frequency is very low.
So in this case how the licenses can be managed.
if any body faced the same scenario please share your experiences.
Any inputs/suggestions are most welcome.
Thanks,
Siddharth

Siddharth,
It would be best if you were able to contact you SAP Account Manager for any query related to licensing. I doubt you would be able to locate any facts / figures related to that.
Thanks,
GLM

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