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This ensures that identities.dat only starts new when it doesn't exist, and DOESN'T overwrite work that Companies may be doing.
* This "identities.dat" file is utilized exclusively by the "DefaultOrganization". Companies are welcome and encouraged, if they wish, to create their own "Plugin that implements the 'Organization' interface", and connects to their own data how they please.
** If this is too much work, they are free to update the "identities.dat" file from their own Organization information on a timely basis.
*** Companies should note that this mechanism was written for an ONAP member company with a nightly feed that included more than 1.3 million records. It does so very efficiently, without synchronizing data.
Relationship to various ONAP Test environments:
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