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You mean "federated" (each node has its set of data and controls what to share with the others upon request) more than "decentralized" (there is single set of d
by gioele 12y ago
You mean "federated" (each node has its set of data and controls what to share with the others upon request) more than "decentralized" (there is single set of data that is replicated and handled by multiple nodes, each of which may have all the data or part of it).
- idlewords 12y agoYou are technically correct. The best kind of correct!
- baddox 12y agoYou certainly could do it decentralized, but I suspect federated is the better fit.
- sdrothrock 12y agoI've never heard of that term before... is there a good resource for reading up on federated servers/networks/design (I'm not even sure which of those three terms is the most appropriate here).
- mattlutze 12y agoThe StackExchange network is an example of federation. All of the various sites have unique userbases and data sets, with a system for authorizing and trusting a user's identity between the lot of them. Otherwise, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_%28information_technology%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_%28information_techn... for a general discussion.
- fanf2 12y agoClassic examples of federated systems: email, usenet, IRC, Jabber, DNS, BGP.
- walden42 12y agoI would argue that if built upon a platform like MaidSafe, which should come out late 2014/early 2015, it would be a decentralized network.