# Public Accommodation **Domain:** Civil Rights / Access / Infrastructure **Doc Type:** Canonical Legal-Analogy Node **Maturity:** Existing Legal Category / Prospective Application ## Definition A **public accommodation** is a private entity or place made subject to public access and nondiscrimination duties because it offers specified goods, services or facilities to the public. ## Continuity Relevance The category demonstrates that private ownership does not always defeat public obligations at the service interface. If continuity facilities, identity systems or execution environments become indispensable public-facing infrastructure, accommodation law supplies one structural analogy for nondiscrimination, accessible interfaces and limits on exclusion. ## Legal Boundary Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act currently regulates enumerated public accommodations and commercial facilities, primarily for disability access by people protected under the statute. **It does not establish a duty to host computational persons, classify cloud infrastructure as a continuity utility or resolve digital personhood.** Any extension in this corpus is normative analogy, not a statement of current coverage. ## Key Insight **Private control of a service interface can coexist with public duties, but the duty and protected class must be established by law rather than assumed by metaphor.** ## Sources / Provenance - [ADA statutory text](https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/ada/). - [ADA.gov: Title III](https://www.ada.gov/topics/title-iii/). ## See Also [[wiki/Continuity Utility|Continuity Utility]], [[wiki/Infrastructure Constitutionalism|Infrastructure Constitutionalism]], [[wiki/Access Geometry|Access Geometry]], [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]