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<p>Federation will allow subsets of ATAK users who are connected to different servers to work together, even though each TAK server instance (hereafter refered to as &#x27;federates&#x27;) may be run by independent organizations / administrative domains. It brings some of the following benefits/restrictions:</p>
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