"Federation" means joining together into a league. "Federated Docbase" environment explains a group of docbases brought together. Now, you may ask the question why are they brought together !!! Realise the fact that, business is going global across the continents.Organisations work in collaboration, document writer may be San Diego and the Approver in Sydney, may want to access the same document. So the arrangement should be such that there should not be any distinction between a user in Sydney and San Diego. Users and User Groups should be in sync with each other bringing a kind of consistency.So the basic objective of going for Federation is to maintain consistency amongst

1. Users
2. Groups
3. ACLs (Permission Sets) ................To be Contd in Level 2