Internet of Record

What would an Internet architecture look like if entities and authoritative records existed independently of individual webpages?

A record layer can sit alongside the page layer rather than replacing it, and machines will increasingly read the record.

Hypothesis — not a conclusion

It reframes the other seven experiments: each one tests a component of an architecture that does not exist yet.

1. Entity
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2. Record
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3. Graph
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4. Source
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5. AI
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6. Action

• InternetOfRecord.com ↗
• WebOfRecord.com ↗

• —That the record layer is coherent as an architecture, not just a metaphor
• —That the other experiments compose into it
• —That it can be described without requiring a new standard

This is thought leadership, not an established technical standard. It is stated as a thesis on purpose.

Testing has not yet produced documented results.

• Existing web standards already provide the record layer
• The components do not compose into a coherent whole
• No participant has an incentive to maintain records

• Does a record layer need governance to be trusted?
• What existing standards already cover part of this?

Write the architecture down in full and test whether each experiment maps to a component of it.