.. _federation:

Federation: multiplayer arborist
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Gossip-based mesh for cross-peer data sharing. Arborist peers
that ingest the same source under the same chunker and
canonicalization compute bit-identical ``document_root`` hashes;
the mesh layer is what lets peers exchange and verify each other's
records without a central authority.

.. automodule:: arborist.mesh
   :members:
   :undoc-members:
   :show-inheritance: