It noted that many investors buy funds through brokerage firms that maintain master accounts in many funds, and that it would fall to the brokerage firm to do all those calculations.
First, there is the question of whether encryption can be made secure while still maintaining a "master key" for the authorities' use.
One of the central activities is designing and maintaining the master data architecture.
It is a long stride from, the days when Mr Strydom used to speak of maintaining the master-servant relationship".
As the nation's largest doctors' group, the medical association has maintained the master file for nearly 100 years, and has licensed it for more than 50.
[C2.] VeriSign to Buy Network Solutions VeriSign, which makes online security software, agreed to buy Network Solutions, which maintains the master list of Internet addresses, in a $21 billion stock swap, although a drop in share price reduced it to $17 billion.
In the costliest acquisition of an Internet company to date, VeriSign Inc., a producer of online security software, agreed today to acquire Network Solutions Inc., the Virginia-based company that maintains the master list of Internet addresses.
Most taxpayers are younger than the computer system that the I.R.S. relies on to maintain its master files on individuals and businesses -- all the records of who they are, where they are, their income, taxes paid, and the amounts they still owe or are owed as refunds.
"SoShare accommodates distributed file transfer while the service maintains one master copy in the cloud for reliable access," Meek says.
