Federation is not perfect, but it is a massive improvement over centralization; if email was
not federated, users of different email providers would have a hard time communicating, and it is quite likely that today there would be only one email provider of any scale left standing.
A report by the National College for School Leadership into «hard» federations (groups of maintained schools with shared governance) found that schools in federations performed better than schools with apparently similar characteristics that had
not federated.
Not exact matches
Probably the two biggest points of pushback were that Google could build an encrypted system if they wanted to (as I explained on Monday, they already tried, and they can't really exercise Android leverage right now), and that carriers could build a
federated key exchange system and / or something akin to the certificate authority framework that undergirds HTTPS.
Trust is
not dependent on one central authority; it is
federated between all users, while, on some level, that may be scary for some who will need to cede control of proprietary systems of checks and balances in favor of an open, transparent approach.
As such, a
federated mutual fund is
not a specific type of fund - rather it is a fund held with this particular company.
First among them, again, are the institutions and men
federated in the American Association of Theological Schools, but many schools
not belonging to the association have co-operated freely.
The irredentism and revanchism of Europe have
not taken root among Mexican or Spanish descendents in the southwest, nor have the Indians
federated to expel all the «foreigners» — some zoo tidllion — who are on their lands.
Federalism does
not equate to an abolition of sovereignty, but to a sharing of competences between a central government and
federated entities — whether the latter are based on a linguistic, cultural or territorial basis.
The building blocks of the GDS» promised «government as a platform» approach have appeared: Verify, a
federated identity system that doesn't rely on ID cards or centralised identity databases, Govpay, which makes it easier to make payments to the government, and Notify, which allows government agencies to keep citizens informed of progress on services.
Recently, a fourth development grant was awarded to the European Biomedical Institute to build a sister infrastructure to the DCC for data aggregation and analysis, in order to allow
federated access via the Portal to data that may
not leave Europe.
Renewed efforts are being made to develop such standards in «
federated identity management» projects.These projects are in principle technology neutral, that is they do
not rely solely on PKI technology, though PKI is a part of them.
I suspect they risk a slight delay in «uptake» in that those organizations with Interwoven may first opt for the «free» Worksite version that comes with the 8.3 upgrade to see what it is like (realizing of course the free version is
not universal or
federated searching).
For example, the big commercial providers like Westlaw and Lexis do
not allow
federated search tools into their databases and some providers have
not yet developed the code to allow the
federated search tools to connect to them.
As well, the increased convenience may come at a cost: many of the advanced search features and limit options offered by individual databases are
not available in
federated searching.
WorldWideScience is a cooperative venture among 44 countries under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (sigh: I wish I didn't wish it was run out of Denmark or Korea or Chile) that offers a
federated search of the various countries» databases.
Open Transactions could also be used to implement truly anonymous digital cash, but the
federated server model in that system is
not as secure as a blockchain (or even the Lightning Network) when it comes to control over one's funds.
Shopin will use a
federated private blockchain via BigChainDB to store consumer data at a scale
not achievable with existing solutions while still being compliant with strict EU regulations governing user data protections.
Importantly, our national scheme of electronic identification is based on
federated model, which means citizen's identity is
not only served by the state - banks, insurers and telecom providers are able to contribute, too.
The transaction must be signed by a majority of key holders, which ensures that if one member of the
federated peg goes rogue, he does
not endanger the entire system.