# Continuity of Essential Digital Services **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Service Continuity / DPI **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established infrastructure objective; continuity extension ## Definition **Continuity of Essential Digital Services** is the requirement that foundational digital functions such as identity, authentication, payments, communications, or public records remain available through disruption and provider failure. ## Continuity Significance If a future person depends on those services for existence or recognition, service continuity becomes person continuity. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence DPI, telecom, government continuity, disaster recovery, and financial regulation contain service-continuity mechanisms. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Existing obligations serve living users and institutions, not post-biological persons. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Digital Public Infrastructure|Digital Public Infrastructure]] · [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] · [[wiki/Essential Digital Infrastructure|Essential Digital Infrastructure]] · [[wiki/Provider Mortality|Provider Mortality]]