# The `mgf.*` federation — pointer

> **This paper has been archived.** The v1 federation-pattern paper predates
> the `mgf-standard` extraction and the devpi cutover — it still describes
> `mgf-common` as "the sole federation leaf" and PyPI as the distribution
> channel, both superseded. Per the corpus's pointer-stub pattern (DOC-17
> style), this stub keeps the old path resolvable; the content moved.
>
> **Read instead:**
>
> - [`FEDERATION.md`](../../FEDERATION.md) — the current federation contract
>   (rings, duties, conformance levels, federation-first principle).
> - [`docs/standards/`](../standards/) — the rules corpus, including
>   [`PACKAGE_DISTRIBUTION.md`](../standards/PACKAGE_DISTRIBUTION.md)
>   (the devpi index) and [`SCOPE.md`](../standards/SCOPE.md).
> - Historical design rationale (kept for the record):
>   [`docs/archive/2026/federation-design-v1-pre-extraction.md`](../archive/2026/federation-design-v1-pre-extraction.md).
