Re: What is an Agent?

Sorry missed a bit:

I personally have no doubt that the need to identify non human agents -
those working on behalf of, or autonomously - already exceeds the need to
identify humans (2.5x by our logs) and I fully expect this to be 10-100x
within this decade.

On Sat, 10 Feb 2024, 11:21 Nathan Rixham, <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, 10 Feb 2024, 11:11 Melvin Carvalho, <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
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>> But an Agent itself is not specified.
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> Note there's an open issue about this.
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> 2. Should a device be an Agent?  Henry is known for saying a hammer is a
>> device but not an agent
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> I'd be very vary about being preclusive here, lines are blurring. Software
> agents are common, devices like the rabbit are definitely agents, and
> there's no doubt that agents will be running on chipsets very very soon,
> certainly before any WebID is spec is rec track.
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