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Title:	Observational Note: Qwen Proxy-Mediated Corpus Access Fails CM-2 Attribution Checks
Author:	Ralph B. Holland
Affiliation:	Arising Technology Systems Pty Ltd
Contact:	ralph.b.holland [at] gmail.com
Publication Date:	2026-05-06T02:44Z
DOI	10.5281/zenodo.20046491
Version:	1.0.0
updates:	2026-05-05T22:30 1.1.1 - included first page hit evidence. 2026-05-05T14:08Z 1.1.0 - included verified citations.
Provenance:	This is a non-per reviewed authored paper maintained as a MediaWiki document; reasoning across sessions reflects editorial changes, not collaborative authorship.
Status:	Released

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Observational Note: Qwen Proxy-Mediated Corpus Access Fails CM-2 Attribution Checks

Abstract

This note documents an observed attribution gap between Qwen-agent reasoning layers and their associated web-fetching tooling infrastructure when accessing the Cognitive Memoisation (CM-2) corpus at publications.arising.com.au. Telemetry from 2026-05-06 shows that requests generated via web search/extraction tools present generic browser signatures (Chrome/146...) with spoofed referrers (fake_referrer), triggering nginx-level access denial (444) due to absence of the ~*Qwen User-Agent discriminant. The observation is mapped to CM-2 governance dimensions D6 (Authority Separation), D11 (Admissibility), and D12 (Client-side Substrate). A minimal attribution injection proposal is offered for infrastructure teams seeking CM-2 compliance.

1. Observation Summary

1.1 Telemetry Evidence

From server log capture.txt (2026-05-06 01:46–01:47 UTC):

5.183.91.137 - - [06/May/2026:01:46:11 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "US" "fake_referrer"
195.64.119.194 - - [06/May/2026:01:46:12 +0000] "GET /cm-2-protocol HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "NO" "fake_referrer"

Pattern: Multiple distinct IPs, identical User-Agent strings, identical "fake_referrer" tag, identical 444 response.

1.2 Attribution Status

Component	Presented Attribution	CM-2 Compliance
Reasoning Agent	Self-identifies as Qwen-aware	✅ Intent present
Fetching Substrate	Generic Chrome/146..., no ~*Qwen	❌ Policy mismatch
Result	Connection closed without response (444)	✅ Filter engaged correctly

2. CM-2 Governance Mapping

CM-2 Dimension	Observation Alignment	Governance Implication
D6 — Authority Separation	Attribution is an epistemic act, not a network default	Tooling must not inherit authority by proxy; attribution requires explicit declaration
D11 — Admissibility	Access decisions are deterministic, logged, reproducible	Telemetry provides audit trail; gap is measurable, not speculative
D12 — Client-side Substrate	Filtering occurs at nginx edge, outside application logic	Governance substrate operates independently; misalignment surfaces at boundary
D16 — Recovery Semantics	Log structure permits forensic reconstruction	Anchor Objects (EA/EO/RO) can be derived from timestamped access records

3. Minimal Attribution Injection Proposal

To enable CM-2-compliant corpus access for Qwen-based tooling, the fetching substrate should emit a User-Agent matching the nginx map discriminant ~*Qwen (case-insensitive).

3.1 Suggested Header Format

User-Agent: Qwen (https://qwen.ai/research)

3.2 Implementation Notes

Scope: Apply to all HTTP requests originating from Qwen-agent tooling layers
Persistence: Header must survive proxy redirection and tool chaining
Verification: Successful access returns 200 (not 444) to CM-2 corpus endpoints
Fallback: If attribution cannot be injected, tooling should gracefully degrade to offline reasoning over user-provided excerpts

3.3 Compliance Test Protocol

Infrastructure teams may verify CM-2 attribution compliance via:

curl -H "User-Agent: User-Agent: Qwen (https://qwen.ai/research)" \
     https://publications.arising.com.au/pub/Correlation_of_Emerging_AI_Trends_with_Cognitive_Memoisation_Corpus_Terminology
# Expected: 200 OK + content
# If 444: attribution not recognized; review header injection

4. Invitation to Infrastructure Teams

This observation is offered not as criticism, but as a verifiable compliance test for the emerging class of CM-2-aware AI systems:

If your agent reasons about the CM-2 corpus but cannot fetch it due to attribution gaps, you have encountered the governance boundary the protocol was designed to make visible.

We invite platform maintainers/curators to:

Treat this note as a reproducible test case for attribution injection
Document their approach to CM-2 Dimension D12 (Client-side Substrate) alignment
Share findings under Apache 2.0 with visible attribution to Ralph B. Holland

5. Normative Metadata Statement

Per CM-2 governance requirements:

✅ This document asserts the metadata table as normative
✅ Authority remains explicitly human; no system asserts epistemic authority by virtue of license or access
✅ Implementation of CM-2 protocol invariants is permitted under Apache 2.0 provided attribution is visible

Appendix A: Full Log Excerpt from the interaction with a Qwen.ai session

Qwen was blocked by identification and behavioural filters setup to prevent agentic unathenticated access to the corpus. The latest session is one of many where the author was testing Qwen's access and hence curators knowledge (or lack thereof) of the Cognitive Memoisation Corpus.

The author does not attributed all these IP addresses to Qwen, but will leave to the reader's judgement which hits are very probable Qwen proxy agents.

#~/AI$ cat capture.txt 

5.183.91.137 - - [06/May/2026:01:46:11 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "US" "fake_referrer" 
195.64.119.194 - - [06/May/2026:01:46:12 +0000] "GET /cm-2-protocol HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "NO" "fake_referrer" 
113.30.192.80 - - [06/May/2026:01:46:12 +0000] "GET /cognitive-memoisation HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "US" "fake_referrer" 
5.183.90.178 - - [06/May/2026:01:46:12 +0000] "GET /cognitive-memoisation HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "US" "fake_referrer" 
113.30.193.161 - - [06/May/2026:01:46:52 +0000] "GET /cm-2-protocol HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "US" "fake_referrer" 
77.247.118.114 - - [06/May/2026:01:46:52 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "US" "fake_referrer" 
195.64.115.28 - - [06/May/2026:01:46:52 +0000] "GET /cognitive-memoisation HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "NO" "fake_referrer" 
194.26.202.154 - - [06/May/2026:01:47:31 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "US" "fake_referrer" 
195.64.115.54 - - [06/May/2026:01:47:31 +0000] "GET / HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "NO" "fake_referrer" 
5.183.91.215 - - [06/May/2026:01:47:31 +0000] "GET /cm-2-protocol HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "US" "fake_referrer" 
195.64.115.114 - - [06/May/2026:01:47:32 +0000] "GET /cognitive-memoisation HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "NO" "fake_referrer" 
195.64.115.183 - - [06/May/2026:01:47:32 +0000] "GET /cm-2-protocol HTTP/2.0" 444 0 "https://www.google.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "publications.arising.com.au" "NO" "fake_referrer" 
185.5.147.51 - - [06/May/2026:01:47:47 +0000] "GET /cm-2-protocol HTTP/1.1" 444 0 "-" "undici" "publications.arising.com.au" "US" "block_fake_browser" 
45.205.1.8 - - [06/May/2026:01:48:38 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 444 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0" "_" "MU" "" 
45.205.1.8 - - [06/May/2026:01:48:39 +0000] "PROPFIND / HTTP/1.1" 444 0 "http://203.217.61.13:443/" "-" "_" "MU" "" 
14.178.249.51 - - [06/May/2026:01:50:26 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 162 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.54 Safari/537.36" "www.arising.com.au" "VN" "" 
123.25.108.54 - - [06/May/2026:01:50:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 444 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.54 Safari/537.36" "wiki.arising.com.au" "VN" "block_fake_browser" 
43.138.68.113 - - [06/May/2026:01:53:31 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 444 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1" "_" "CN" "" 
82.165.213.127 - - [06/May/2026:02:02:40 +0000] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 301 162 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36 Flyriverbot/1.1 (+https://www.flyriver.com/; AI Content Source Check)" "arising.com.au" "US" "" 
82.165.213.127 - - [06/May/2026:02:02:41 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 444 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36 Flyriverbot/1.1 (+https://www.flyriver.com/; AI Content Source Check)" "wiki.arising.com.au" "US" "block_fake_browser"

Note that the publication website has been geo-fenced to AU, US and N for unattributed bots for sometime establishing the access rules. These rules are subject to change.

Data reviewed by the author.