Dealing with LLMs in IETF discussions draft

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Fri, 31 July 2026 01:20 UTC

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Hi all,

Myself and Chong Feng have posted an I-D [1] that (from two
pretty different perspectives) aims to progress discussion
of how we might better handle LLM text in IETF discussions.

I think this'd be a fine topic for broad discussion. I do
not know what would be the correct mailing list for such a
discussion, but also think it doesn't warrant waiting for
another round of dispatchery before being discussed. (Nor
would any dispatch outcome above 'new mailing list' suit.)

So, I'd be v. interested in comments on this and/or on it
being moved to some other mailing list for discussion. If
no existing list suits, I'd suggest humanorwhat@ietf.org
(which could be contracted to how@ietf.org:-) as a name
for a new list, but whatever works is fine.

Meanwhile, we'd be v. interested in any comments here or
on the github repo [2].

And of course, this is a v. rough thing, not intended to
be prescriptive or authoritative, so have at it:-)

Cheers,
S.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fengfar-led/
[2] https://github.com/sftcd/led/