Why is DACS called a distributed access control system?
Many of the pieces that make up a working DACS federation can be located on different computers. Jurisdictions can be assigned to different computers, a jurisdiction can authenticate its users by invoking programs on other computers, and configuration and data files can be retrieved from remote computers. Not all of the computers need to be able to communicate with each other. As mentioned earlier, DACS does not require or assume that there are any centralized web services or special computers – all jurisdictions are created equally.
