The Federation
Registered domains, entity classes, and cross-domain intelligence
The Federation is the full connected graph across all Root-LD registered domains. It is not a single database. It is not a centralized system. It is a collection of independently operated domains that conform to a shared specification — the Root-LD Specification v1.0 — and produce entities that are structurally compatible, semantically linkable, and permanently identifiable across domain boundaries.
Every entity minted in any registered domain carries the same anchor layer. Every anchor layer points back to root-ld.org as the governing specification. Every edge in the Recursive layer can cross domain boundaries because every entity shares the same federationId format, the same entityClass taxonomy, and the same edge taxonomy.
When the federation is mature — when the corpus is large, the lexicon is rich, and the passes have run multiple times — what exists is a machine-readable map of American public infrastructure, law, economics, business, and procurement, organized by a proprietary schema, connected by semantically-confirmed edges, navigable by any crawler, and reasoned about by a model fine-tuned specifically on the relationships within it. That is not a collection of websites. That is infrastructure.
Each registered domain has a profile defining its primary entity classes, its lexicon contribution, its schema extensions, and its relationship to all other domains in the federation. Domains are registered at the federation level — at root-ld.org — before any entities are minted under them.
Entity classes are defined at the federation level. Every entity minted in any domain must declare one of these classes. The class determines which body fields are required, which edge types apply, and how the entity participates in federation passes. New classes require a specification amendment — they cannot be invented at the domain level.
Class Registry — v1.0
15 DEFINED CLASSESThe federation's intelligence does not live in any single domain. It emerges from the edges between domains. A statute on oakmorel.com, a business profile on rankwithme.ai, an economic indicator on franklinsledger.com, and a methodology definition on recursiveengineoptimization.com are four separate entities on four separate domains. When they share lexicon terms, jurisdiction, or confirmed semantic overlap, they become connected — and the connection makes each one more valuable than it was alone.
Edge Density — The Primary Metric
COMPOUNDINGThe power of the federation is measured not by the number of entities but by the density of cross-domain edges. Every cron run, every new entity ingested, every pass increases edge density.
Cross-Domain Edge Example OM-STATUTE-7x9k2m ───GOVERNS──────────► OM-BID-3a8f1b 15 U.S.C. § 1 FA8501-26-R-0001 Sherman Antitrust Act ◄──GOVERNS-INVERSE─── Federal Contract │ │ │ TOPICALLY-RELATED ISSUED-BY │ ▼ ▼ RW-ORGANIZATION-9c2d4e ───REFERENCED-BY────► OM-ENTITY-af7b2c Business Profile Federal Agency rankwithme.ai oakmorel.com │ │ JURISDICTIONALLY-RELATED ▼ FL-ECONOMIC-2b7e9a Economic Indicator franklinsledger.com
Compound Reasoning
THE EMERGENT PROPERTYCompound Reasoning is the property of a mature federation where every new entity added to any domain immediately increases the intelligence of the entire graph. It emerges because the Recursive layer runs across the full corpus — a new entity on rankwithme.ai is immediately available for edge-building against every existing entity across all five domains.
When an AI system retrieves from this graph it does not find pages. It finds entities with confirmed relationships to other entities across five domains. When it answers a question about procurement fraud it finds the statute that governs it, the agency that enforces it, the bid types it applies to, the economic indicators that correlate with it, and the forensic methodology that detects it — all connected by edges confirmed by a model that understands this specific domain better than any general-purpose model. The fine-tuned model — The Lexicon Model — is the moat.
New domains can be registered in the federation. Registration is a federation-level decision made at root-ld.org. A domain that wishes to join must conform to the Root-LD specification in full — there are no partial implementations. The anchor layer is non-negotiable. The immutability rules apply from the first entity minted.