Building block view¶
The dataLOFT platform is divided into two distinct service tiers. This separation is fundamental to the architecture.
Management Services form the control plane. They are operated by the Federator and handle all coordination: identity verification, catalogue discovery, contract negotiation, and data transfer orchestration. Management services do not process or store the actual data being shared.
Data Services form the data plane. They are built on top of management services by data providers and implement domain-specific data access logic. A data service connects to RUN-DSP via the gRPC interface defined in run-dsrpc and registers its offerings in FC-Service.
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The following sections describe the level 2 decomposition of each tier.