Dependency profile
- Dependency owner
- Multiple carriers, satellite, fiber, radio and naming authorities
- Affected population
- All networked participants
- Substitutability
- CONSTRAINED
- Switching cost
- HIGH
- Replacement time
- Scenario-specific; must be measured and tested, not assumed.
- Concentration level
- HIGH
- Non-Domination Test
- PASS_REQUIREMENTS_DEFINED
Abuse and failure paths
Abuse: Traffic surveillance, deplatforming, routing manipulation, naming seizure.
Failure: Cable cut, satellite loss, DNS failure, partition.
Required exit and alternatives
Exit: Multi-path routing, cached public records, local-first operations, alternate naming.
Portability: Exportable domains, certificates, public manifests, local contact routes.
Interoperability: Open Internet standards and offline-capable formats.
Independent alternative: At least two physical paths plus delayed store-and-forward.
Emergency handback: Operate degraded; preserve monotonic history; reconcile without silent overwrite.
Disconfirming evidence
- Failed exit drill
- Unavailable independent alternative
- Retaliation for attempted exit
- Material portability gap
- Undisclosed common-mode dependency
Truth boundary
Static risk-governance record. It does not prove an operational service, market share, capacity, dependency, alternative, or successful exit drill.
Authority and record status
Responsible authority: Communications authority.
Static concentration-governance record; no operational alternative or exit drill is proven.
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