Federated Governance — Vocabulary and Discussion Language
Learn vocabulary for discussing interoperability, data standards, and governance in Data Mesh.
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What is 'interoperability' in Data Mesh governance?
Interoperability means data products across domains can be joined, combined, or compared because they follow agreed-upon standards for formats, identifiers (e.g., customer_id), and interfaces.
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What is a 'global policy' in Data Mesh federated governance?
Global policies in federated governance are organisation-wide standards that all data products must follow: PII classification rules, data retention, identity field standards, and encryption requirements.
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What is 'computational governance' in Data Mesh?
Computational governance implements governance policies as code (e.g., automated PII tagging, mandatory schema validation, access control as policy-as-code) — enforcement is automated, not manual.
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What is the 'data mesh council' or governance group?
A data mesh council (or governance forum) is a cross-domain group that agrees on global interoperability standards, evolves policies, and resolves conflicts between domains — without becoming a centralised bottleneck.
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What does 'data contract' mean in Data Mesh governance?
A data contract is a formal, versioned agreement between a data product (producer) and a consumer specifying: schema, SLAs, backward-compatibility guarantees, and the notification process for breaking changes.