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X-Road is a secure and scalable database access middleware originally developed in Estonia in early 2000s. In 2014, a decision was taken to also deploy X-Road infrastructure within Finland, hence facilitation cross-national federation. Even though being very close both geographically and culturally, the legislation, technology and best practices used by the two nations differ. This paper discusses the nature and implications of these differences in the context of federated installation of the infrastructure.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Regional Development Fund through Estonian Centre of Excellence in ICT Research (EXCITE) and the Estonian Research Council under Institutional Research Grant IUT27-1.
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Freudenthal, M., Willemson, J. (2017). Challenges of Federating National Data Access Infrastructures. In: Farshim, P., Simion, E. (eds) Innovative Security Solutions for Information Technology and Communications. SecITC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10543. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69284-5_8
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