Its interesting how much of the conversation around AI agents focuses on identity and authority. Law often starts somewhere else: Standing. Before asking what an actor is allowed to do, it asks why that actor is participating at all? new essay >> https://paragraph.com/@garethfarry/by-what-standing

The internet is increasingly becoming an institutional web, with coordinated auth across systems ... but no answer to the Q: By what authority does this action occur? Identity systems solved authentication. They rarely solved legitimacy. New essay: https://paragraph.com/@garethfarry/the-institutional-web-coordination-legitimacy-and-the-next-layer-of-the-internet