====== 5. Islands of Automation ======

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===== Systems Work Well Internally =====

  * Organizations automate their own forms, workflows, rules, and decisions
  * Systems use locally selected Data Models, Vocabularies, platforms, and technologies
  * Governance reflects the requirements and Authority of each Domain
  * Individual implementations become optimized for their immediate mission

===== Federation Remains Difficult =====

  * Equivalent information uses different Structures and Vocabularies
  * Identical terms may represent different concepts
  * Different terms may represent the same concept
  * Interpretation rules remain embedded in implementation-specific software
  * Interfaces and mappings require repeated bilateral negotiation
  * Human intervention remains necessary at organizational and System boundaries

===== Operational Consequences =====

  * Integration costs increase as the number of participating Systems grows
  * Changes in one System can invalidate established mappings
  * Provenance and Interpretive Authority become difficult to trace
  * Results may change without a visible change to the exchanged Data
  * Each new federation risks becoming another custom implementation

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**Local automation does not automatically produce federated interoperability.**
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