# FAIR Scales Federated WordPress Distribution Through Trust ## Claim A federated package registry becomes durable when its roadmap treats trust as the scaling constraint. <!-- atomicity: 1 idea ✓ --> ## Evidence > [!quote] > "The roadmap maps out three major milestones for the year, focusing on trust systems, expanding federation, and infrastructure resilience." ## Scope & conditions - **Holds** when independent repositories need shared verification without one central store controlling distribution. - **Strongest** when publishers, mirrors, and clients must recognize the same trust signals across organizational boundaries. - **Weaker** when one operator controls the full publishing and installation path. ## Links - [[3. Resources/Literature Notes/Lit · FAIR builds federated WordPress trust systems]] — the source note that grounds the trust-first federation claim - [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/Zet · FAIR embeds commercial flows into wp-admin]] — the marketplace-side sibling showing what the federated trust layer must support - [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/Portability Is Proven by a Second Implementer Not by Design Intent]] — extends (added 2026-08-01): trust is the constraint on scaling federation, while independent adoption — TYPO3 v14 shipping FAIR in core — is what tests whether the protocol underneath was ever CMS-agnostic - [[Commons & Community Governance MOC]] — home for shared infrastructure governed across commercial and community participants ## Source - [[3. Resources/Readwise/Articles/FAIR’s 2026 Roadmap Targets Commercial Plugin Integration, Plans to Rebundle Top 10,000 WordPress Plugins]]