Appendix 1. General decisions

You will find here the list of different general decisions and choices made during the build of the DFC Standard. It is ordered from the most recent one to the oldest one; some of these decisions may sound obsolete or not related to today's specifications but they can help understanding how we build them.

• Federation vs Syndication

• Stateless or stateful?

• Service granularity

• Directionality

• Identification and authentication

• Centralized or decentralized data storage

• Metadata repository