Platform / Federation
Connect authorized services without erasing boundaries
The federation control plane represents qualified capacity, verifies identity and node state, evaluates placement policy, and records why a workload was accepted, refused, or recovered.
Evidence matrix
Control plane functions
| Function | Required behavior | Pilot proof |
|---|---|---|
| Capacity registry | Publish eligible compute, network, power, and health by node | Signed inventory reconciles to configuration |
| Identity & attestation | Verify people, services, devices, firmware, and node state | Invalid or drifted identity is denied |
| Policy engine | Match workload, citizenship, sovereignty, export, customer, and mission rules | Decision includes a machine-readable reason |
| Scheduler | Place work only on eligible capacity and reservations | Synthetic jobs route under changing constraints |
| Data control | Keep local, replicate, encrypt, or prohibit movement by policy | Cross-border denial tests succeed |
| Observability | Record health, security, energy, carbon, cost, and service events | Evidence reconstructs each decision |
| Resilience | Fail over only to an authorized node | Loss exercises measure recovery and data loss |
Evidence note
Zero trust across nodes
NIST defines zero trust around protecting resources and making explicit authentication and authorization decisions, without implicit trust based only on network location or ownership. That principle governs Talvium's federation design.
NIST SP 800-207Operating sequence
Two-node unclassified demonstrator
- 01
Register
Represent Node A and Node B with signed capacity and constraint records.
- 02
Place
Route synthetic container workloads only to eligible configurations.
- 03
Refuse
Prove the platform denies ineligible data, region, identity, and drift conditions.
- 04
Recover
Exercise capacity, network, control-plane, and energy-loss scenarios.
- 05
Replay
Reconstruct each decision from identity, policy, state, energy, and outcome evidence.