Comment on The Free And Open Web Is Under Attack At The IETF by Ellie

I visited IETF datatracker for the Web Bot Auth working group. The timestamps for most of the draft documents were 26 June 2026 i.e. yesterday. Then I glanced at the most recent meeting minutes datatracker.ietf.org/doc/minutes-interim-2026-webbotauth-02-202604131700

AI/LLM bots that scrape and gulp training data don't seem under serious threat (i.e. being cut off from the "open web" given this:

The first item on the agenda was whether alleviating volumetric abuse by AI bots. The WG vote was 7 in favor and 2 against. It could have been worse, but... sheesh