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Updated by Tom Morris about 7 years ago

Basic elements: 
 - a single login server which provides authentication for all clusters in the network 
 - a single user UUID is used across all nodes in the cluster. 

 API server needs two additional features: 
 1. Validate salted token by contacting origin cluster 
 2. As an origin cluster, validate a received token from a remote cluster 

 Validation requests return the user record valid/invalid, UUID, username, email address, as well as a lifetime after which is used to populate the local user table, along with an expiration time after which revalidation token should occur. be revalidated by the caller. 

 Draft: [[Federated identity]] 

 Migration process from local identity to network identity is separate

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