[dispatch] Re: Request for a DISPATCH slot at IETF 127: draft-srivastava-learnlog-03

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Kumar Srivastava <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > I'd like to ask for a 15-minute slot at the IETF 127 DISPATCH session on November 16 to present draft-srivastava-learnlog-03:

    > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-srivastava-learnlog/

    > In short: when a learner works with an AI tutor or assistant, there's
    > no common way to record what help was asked for, offered, shown, or
    > accepted, or to say which of those facts were actually observed and
    > which were self-reported or inferred. The draft proposes a capture
    > profile for that, with bindings to xAPI and Caliper, and an optional
    > event file format with hash chains, signed heads, and redaction that
    > can still be verified. It's an individual draft with no home yet, and
    > I'd value the group's read on where it belongs, or whether it belongs
    > here at all.

As the IETF didn't do xAPI or Caliper (as far as I know), so we'd have no
particular expertise in reviewing how well it builds upon that.
(I'd never heard of those things before.)

We also have no expertise in the taxonomy of events, so that does not fit.
The document seems to be creating some kind of cryptographically signed
record.  It does not build on any IETF technologies, although JWT is cited, I
did not see in my browse that it uses that.  Maybe rfc6920.

At 78 pages, I'd say it was written by a bot.

Even:
>   Each element is preceded by a record separator (0x1E) and followed by

is quaint throwback to the 1970s that few humans would ever do.

So, no.


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