## The Federated DCE Namespace

The DCE namespace is a single hierarchy of names, but the names can be contained in many different services. Because several services cooperate to make the DCE namespace, it is a federated namespace.

The following figure shows a typical DCE namespace and the different services in which names reside.

A Federated DCE Namespace

The following topics describe the different domains of the DCE namespace.

More:

The GDS Namespace

The CDS Namespace

Other Namespaces

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