The canonical .ai position for federated identity across agent and trust boundaries.
Where agents resolve who is who across systems that don't share a common trust anchor.
Coordinated sets this position belongs to — the coverage it extends. Counts are the live cluster size in the graph.
Architectural context
Identity · Cross-Vertical · 2 compound moats. Cross-cutting: Identity, Federation.
Layer position: Substrate (L1)
Why this is canonical
'Identity federation' names the established architectural pattern for bridging authentication and authorization across organizational and system boundaries. On .ai it becomes the natural namespace coordinate for that pattern applied to the agent era — where agents from different vendors, clouds, and trust domains must establish coherent identity before cooperating.
Where it fits
A few directions this coordinate opens —
Illustrative, not exhaustive — held as a transferable canonical position, open to the buyer's own use.