Patent ID: 8683043

Claim:
A federation comprising: a first distributed platform operating a first set of servers to serve assets of a first plurality of customers of the first distributed platform on behalf of the first plurality of customers, wherein the first distributed platform configures a first set of domains for requesting the assets of the first plurality of customers from the first distributed platform; a second distributed platform operating a second set of servers independent of the first distributed platform to serve assets of a second plurality of customers of the second distributed platform on behalf of the second plurality of customers, wherein the second distributed platform configures a second set of domains for requesting the assets of the second plurality of customers from the second distributed platform; and an authorization process operable to ensure that a domain configured by the first distributed platform does not conflict with any domain of the second set of domains configured by the second distributed platform when an asset for a customer of the first plurality of customers of the first distributed platform is to be served using at least one server of the second set of servers.