# Essential Infrastructure to Continuity Infrastructure **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Legal Transition / Public Utility **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Major unresolved transition ## Definition **Essential Infrastructure to Continuity Infrastructure** is the step from treating digital identity, broadband, payments, or records as essential services to treating the continued existence of a computational subject as an essential service obligation. ## Continuity Significance It is the missing utility bridge. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence DPI and universal-service regimes establish public duties around foundational digital services. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note No government has yet made the full bridge to post-biological continuation. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Essential Digital Infrastructure|Essential Digital Infrastructure]] · [[wiki/Continuity as Public Utility|Continuity as Public Utility]] · [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] · [[wiki/Positive Right to Continuity|Positive Right to Continuity]]