Federation (computer science)
A federation is a computer and / or network provider agreement about standard operations in a collective manner.
Name usage
Connect two distinct networks
- The term can be used to describe operations between two clearly and formally separate telecommunications networks that can have different internal structures. Since the internal modus operandi is irrelevant for the existence of the federation in the telecommunications connection between different systems.
Yahoo and Microsoft , for example, For example, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger are known to be interoperable.
Collective authority
- The term can also be used when groups try to delegate collective authority over development in order to avoid secession .
The MIT X consortium z. B. was founded in 1988 to prevent development spin-offs from the X Window Systems . As a result, every leading platform (besides Windows) is now delivered with mostly compatible X server implementations.
Network systems
- In network systems, being federated means that users are able to send messages from one network to another. However, this is not the same as using a client that can operate with both networks and acts independently with both sides.
For example, in 2009 , Google allowed Gmail users to log into their AOL instant messenger accounts (AIM for short) using GMail. However, you could not send messages to AIM with GTalk or XMPP accounts or vice versa. From March 2011 GMail federated with AIM and thus allowed users of both networks to communicate with each other and to add each other to the contact list.
See also
- Federated information system
- Distributed social network
- OpenID , a form of federated identity
- Federated portal network
- Federated VoIP
- Fediverse
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Serrano, S. Davy, M. Johnsson, W. Donnelly, A. Galis - "Review and Designs of Federated Management in Future Internet Architectures" part of the book "The Future Internet - Future Internet Assembly 2011: Achievements and Technological Promises "- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6656, 465 pp, ISBN 978-3-642-20897-3 , May 4, 2011- Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/book / 978-3-642-20897-3
- ^ Nate Mook: Microsoft, Yahoo to Link IM Networks , Beta News . October 12, 2005.
- ↑ At least most GNU / Linux distributions , Unix and BSD .
- ↑ About AIM in Gmail . Google . October 13, 2009. Archived from the original on November 8, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
