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Federated Asset ID

People are known to different organizations by different identifiers. You can be known by the following identifiers:

• A unique nickname to your close friends
• Driver's license (unique ID associated with you)
• A national service ID (for example, a selective service card)
• A health insurance number
• A national tax identification number

Each of these unique identifiers refers to you; however, the identifier is only valid when used to describe you to the appropriate repository.

Similarly, a CI can have multiple identifiers to associate it with its source MDRs. Each CI is known to an MDR by only a single identifier. We call this identifier the federated asset ID. The process of associating a CI with one or more MDRs is mapping the CI.

Mapping occurs when CIs are loaded into the MDB in one of two ways:

• Defining the CI mapping using the Administration user interface
• Loading CIs using the GRLoader utility