Keynote: The Agentic Shift: The Internet Industry Reimagined#

Mukhammad Andri Setiawan, Universitas Islam Indonesia

• Why: The direction-of-field keynote: autonomous agents as operators of infrastructure — the world the IETF's WEBBOTAUTH and CATALIST efforts (see the IETF update above) are being chartered for.
• What: An argument that the industry is shifting from manual configuration to networks configured by agents, code generated without SQL, and ops moving from hands-on engineering to high-level coordination — with roles emerging for the next decade: "Agent Shepherds" guiding agent swarms, "Sovereignty Architects" for ethical/policy frameworks, and "Compute Brokers" managing agent-economy compute. Also covers bias and accuracy risks, and "AI sovereignty" as a national capability.
• How: Futures-style synthesis rather than a technical method; the same speaker's IPv6-renumbering study elsewhere in the program grounds the claim empirically (AI-assisted configuration cut measured cognitive workload ~65–72% and task time dramatically in a small within-subjects experiment, while organizational readiness lagged).
• Where applicable: Broad and speculative, but the trajectory it names — identity, authorization, and supervision for non-human actors — is exactly where the identity portion of this reader's portfolio is heading. (from abstract only)