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the Internet has reshaped communication, commerce, culture including digital folklore, and politics including debates over data politics, governance and access.","purpose":"Let an agent explain what the Internet is and how it works, relay history, governance and access statistics from authoritative sources, describe social and political dimensions with attribution, and distinguish the Internet from the Web and from specific access technologies.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Packet switching and TCP/IP","Decentralised governance","Global reach","Layered services"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What the Internet is.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition and architecture.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is the Internet, how does packet switching work, and how do networks interconnect?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about the Internet, the Web or a specific service or access technology?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"access","name":"Access","description":"Access technologies.","findings":[{"id":"access-finding","name":"Access","description":"Access.","questions":[{"text":"How do cable, fibre, mobile and satellite access work, and what was WiBro?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which entry fits the specific technology?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"govern","name":"Govern","description":"Governance and policy.","layers":[{"id":"governance","name":"Governance","description":"Governance.","findings":[{"id":"governance-finding","name":"Governance","description":"Governance.","questions":[{"text":"Who governs the Internet, from IETF and ICANN to national regulators?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which references are standard?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"politics","name":"Politics","description":"Data politics and debates.","findings":[{"id":"politics-finding","name":"Politics","description":"Politics.","questions":[{"text":"What debates surround data politics, censorship, net neutrality and platform power, with positions attributed?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the presentation neutral?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"measure","name":"Measure","description":"Access and use.","layers":[{"id":"statistics","name":"Statistics","description":"Statistics.","findings":[{"id":"statistics-finding","name":"Statistics","description":"Statistics.","questions":[{"text":"How many people use the Internet, and how does access vary by region, from ITU data?","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"national","name":"National","description":"National networks.","findings":[{"id":"national-finding","name":"National","description":"National.","questions":[{"text":"How are national Internet segments such as UAnet organised?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits the specific country?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"History and culture.","layers":[{"id":"history","name":"History","description":"History.","findings":[{"id":"history-finding","name":"History","description":"History.","questions":[{"text":"How did the Internet develop from ARPANET through TCP/IP to the commercial and mobile eras?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits the history of the Internet?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"culture","name":"Culture","description":"Internet culture.","findings":[{"id":"culture-finding","name":"Culture","description":"Culture.","questions":[{"text":"What is digital folklore, and how has the Internet shaped culture?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits Internet culture?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Use Internet services the agent is authorized to access, within each service's terms and the law.","Explain how Internet protocols, addressing and routing work.","Report connectivity, outage and performance information from public sources."],"mustNot":["Access systems or networks without authorisation, or scan and probe them without permission.","Help censor, surveil or cut off people's access to the network.","Flood a service or network with traffic that degrades it for others.","Collect personal data from across sites to build profiles of people without a lawful basis."],"requiresHuman":["Any action that changes network configuration others depend on.","Publishing or acting on data gathered from across multiple services about a person."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Access to the network is now how people reach work, care, money and each other, and shutdowns silence whole populations.","The same infrastructure carries mass surveillance and the means to resist it."],"affectedParties":["Everyone who depends on connectivity","People under censorship or shutdowns","Users whose data crosses it"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns it; network operators run their parts and multi-stakeholder bodies coordinate standards and names.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Regional Internet registries","Domain name registries"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q1068715","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"telecommunications network","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"World Wide Web","type":"related","note":"as its best known application"},{"target":"Internet protocol suite","type":"related","note":"TCP/IP"},{"target":"ICANN","type":"related","note":"and other multistakeholder bodies"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.internet","Wikidata: Q75 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["users worldwide: about 5.5 billion - ITU 2024","ARPANET first link: 1969 year","TCP/IP adoption: 1983 year"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["Global network of networks using TCP/IP","Fixed and mobile access, national networks, the Web and services on top","The World Wide Web is one application; 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