[ai-control] IETF 126 side meeting: Defining Machine Readability for Usage Preferences and Policy Expression

Thom Vaughan <thom@commoncrawl.org> Mon, 20 July 2026 08:35 UTC

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Hi all,

There will be a side meeting at IETF 126 in Vienna to discuss the draft on machine readability, and everyone with an interest is warmly invited.

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Machine Readability in Preferences
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
9:30 to 11:00 (Europe/Vienna)
Park Suite 4
Areas: WIT
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The session will focus on discussion of the current draft and open issues in GitHub at https://github.com/thunderpoot/readability-draft/issues.  If you plan to attend, or have points you would like to see covered, please feel free to reply on-list or contact me directly.

Hope to see many of you there.

Cheers,

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Thom Vaughan
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