I-D Action: draft-reilly-mws-01.txt

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   Title:   Machine-Web Symbiosis (MWS): An Architecture for Autonomous Agent Maintenance of Web Permanence and Integrity
   Author:  Lawrence John Reilly Jr. Jr.
   Name:    draft-reilly-mws-01.txt
   Pages:   43
   Dates:   2026-08-20

Abstract:

   The World Wide Web has no native memory and no native trust layer.
   It records what exists now; it cannot prove what existed, when it
   existed, or whether it has been altered.  This gap, tolerable when
   the web's consumers were human, is untenable in an era of
   autonomous AI agents that read, cite, and act on web content at
   machine scale.

   This document defines Machine-Web Symbiosis (MWS): an architecture
   in which autonomous agents and web infrastructure sustain each
   other.  Agents continuously verify, archive, anchor, and cross-
   reference web resources across multiple independent permanence
   systems; the maintained record in turn supplies agents and all
   downstream consumers with verifiable ground truth.  MWS formally
   unifies the protocols of the Reilly Protocol Suite, including the
   REM Protocol (dual-layer digital permanence), the REM Triple
   Fingerprint (multi-algorithm content identity), WebProof (web
   content attestation), and the Cognitive Trust Stack (verifiable
   agent behavioral provenance), into a single layered architecture,
   and specifies a complete step-by-step implementation process for
   an MWS attestation pipeline, from artifact ingestion through
   continuous verification and repair.

   Machine-Web Symbiosis is introduced by the author, Lawrence John
   Reilly Jr., as a deliberate broadening of the man-computer
   symbiosis of Licklider (1960) from the human-machine pairing to
   the agent-web pairing.

   This revision adds the Sentinel Transparency Interface, a
   normative machine-readable and human-readable publication
   interface through which an MWS deployment exposes its own
   verification activity.

   The architecture specified here is implemented.  A conforming
   deployment, the MWS Sentinel Loop, is in continuous unattended
   operation at https://www.remweb4.org/sentinel: autonomous agents
   verify an attested corpus across the six permanence layers,
   detect drift against the live web, repair detected degradation,
   and publish every outcome to an append-only hash-linked ledger
   that any third party may walk and check without the operator's
   cooperation.  Machine-Web Symbiosis is therefore documented here
   as a realized architecture rather than a proposed one.  A
   multi-operator attestation model is defined as the remaining
   path from this single-operator deployment to distributed
   infrastructure.

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