Federation (information technology)

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A federation is a group of computing or network providers agreeing upon standards of operation in a collective fashion. The most widely known example is the Internet, which is federated around the Internet Protocol (IP) stack of protocols. Another example is email, where the common use of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), allows, for example, alice@example.com to communicate with bob@example.edu and eve@example.org, although the software implementing each of these systems can be completely different. The term may be used when describing the inter-operation of two distinct, formerly disconnected, telecommunications networks that may have different internal structures. The term "federated cloud" refers to facilitating the interconnection of two or more geographically separate computing clouds. The term may also be used when groups attempt to delegate collective authority of development to prevent fragmentation. In a telecommunication interconnection, the internal modi operandi of...

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