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The web is not "federated": site A does not communicate with site B. Contrast with SMTP or XMPP which require federated servers to communicate with one another
by lloeki 14y ago
The web is not "federated": site A does not communicate with site B. Contrast with SMTP or XMPP which require federated servers to communicate with one another to establish dialog between two users. All of them are decentralized though.
- rhizome 14y agoThe routers do, though. Through BGP, AS's communicate location information to the routing infrastructure of other AS's. 15 years ago we saw the decline of "everybody knows everything" as the routing tables of core infrastructure simply became too unwieldy.