WG Action: Formed AI Preferences (aipref)

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A new IETF WG has been formed in the Web and Internet Transport. For
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AI Preferences (aipref)
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Current status: Proposed WG

Chairs:
  Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@gmail.com>
  Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>

Assigned Area Director:
  Zaheduzzaman Sarker <zahed.sarker.ietf@gmail.com>

Web and Internet Transport Directors:
  Francesca Palombini <francesca.palombini@ericsson.com>
  Zaheduzzaman Sarker <zahed.sarker.ietf@gmail.com>

Mailing list:
  Address: ai-control@ietf.org
  To subscribe: https://mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lists/ai-control.ietf.org/
  Archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ai-control/

Group page: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/aipref/

Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-aipref/

The AI Preferences Working Group will standardize building blocks that allow
for the expression of preferences about how content is collected and
processed for Artificial Intelligence (AI) model development, deployment, and
use.

There are many ways that preferences regarding content might be expressed.
The Working Group will focus on attaching preferences to content either by
including preferences in content metadata or by signaling preferences using
the protocol that delivers content.

The Working Group will deliver:

 - A standard track document covering vocabulary for expressing AI-related
 preferences, independent of how those preferences are associated with
 content. - Standard track document(s) describing means of attaching or
 associating those preferences with content in IETF-defined protocols and
 formats, including but not limited to using Well-Known URIs (RFC 8615) such
 as the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309), and HTTP response header
 fields. - A standard method for reconciling multiple expressions of
 preferences.

The working group is expected to liaise as appropriate with:

 - International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) and the PLUS
 Coalition, regarding attachment in formats controlled by these bodies -
 WHATWG and/or W3C, regarding attachment in HTML and other formats controlled
 by these bodies - Other bodies responsible for content formats, as
 appropriate

Liaisons are intended to aid the incorporation into protocols, mechanisms,
frameworks and content formats developed and controlled by external bodies.

The following topics are out of scope for this charter:

 - Technical enforcement of preferences
 - Application layer protocols for authenticating or authorizing clients
 and/or crawlers - Establishment of registries of preferences relating to
 content - Auditing and other transparency measures for AI training

Milestones:

  Aug 2025 - A standard track specification describing vocabulary for
  expressing AI-related preferences to the IESG for publication

  Aug 2025 - Standard track protocol specification(s) to associate the
  AI-related preferences to the IESG for publication