# Universal Digital Service **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Universal Service / Digital Rights **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis from telecom and DPI precedent ## Definition **Universal Digital Service** is the principle that baseline access to specified digital infrastructure should be available broadly rather than solely where profitable. ## Continuity Significance It provides the distributional grammar for a future minimum continuity service if such a right were ever recognized. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Universal service exists for telecommunications and broadband in multiple jurisdictions; DPI programs pursue inclusion. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note No current universal-service mandate covers postmortem compute or human continuity. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Universal Continuity Service]] · [[wiki/Digital Public Utility|Digital Public Utility]] · [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]] · [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]]