# Internet architecture

`kaal:entity:internet-architecture`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `internet-architecture`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2021.

**2018**

- [3266953-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3266953-005) [mechanism/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- Today's internet is designed for hierarchical societal structures on an underlying authoritative trust model, and that traditional hierarchical trust model carries many inefficiencies including serious cyber security vulnerabilities.
  > Worse yet, today's internet is designed for hierarchical societal structures and with an underlying authoritative trust model. Many inefficiencies are associated with the traditional hierarchical trust model including serious cyber security vulnerabilities.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Gopinath Sivalingam, Reputation Protocol for the Internet of Trust - Conceptual Whitepaper (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3266953

**2021**

- [3808859-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-034) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- People increasingly substitute trust in machines, algorithms, and code for trust in organizations and procedures, but that reliance may be misplaced because the existing internet was designed for hierarchical societal structures on an authoritative hierarchical trust model carrying serious cyber security vulnerabilities.
  > Peoples' increasing reliance on digitized, coded, and automated replacements of traditional cohesion mechanisms may be misplaced. The existing internet is designed for hierarchical societal structures and with an underlying authoritative and hierarchical trust model.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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