Re: 3114 active Internet-drafts
Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 06 July 2026 20:52 UTC
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On 07-Jul-26 05:11, Nathanael Ritz wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2026 at 10:36, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org <mailto:cabo@tzi.org>> wrote:
>
> At 1600Z, kramdown-rfc-cache-i-d-bibxml finds 3114 active Internet-drafts going into IETF 126.
> I didn’t keep statistics, but this seems more than I’m used to.
>
> 8 hours to go…
>
> Grüße, Carsten
>
> I wonder how many of those are competing Agentic AI protocol I-Ds, written by Agentic AI? The upshot is that all of those require a human in the loop to show up at the actual WG meetings, so there is that. I would love to know the baseline statistics.
I haven't done any real anlalysis, but I think we are seeing numerous "suites" of AI-generated I-Ds with closely related file names (the "ipv8" suite a few months ago was an example). That does make them a bit easier to identify and ignore as a group.
However, looking at the 300 most recent I-D announcements (i.e a sample of the deadline rush), I don't see that pattern. I see about 35% of WG drafts and 65% of individual drafts.
Brian
- 3114 active Internet-drafts Carsten Bormann
- RE: 3114 active Internet-drafts Adrian Farrel
- Re: 3114 active Internet-drafts Nathanael Ritz
- Re: 3114 active Internet-drafts Brian E Carpenter
- Re: 3114 active Internet-drafts George Michaelson
- Re: 3114 active Internet-drafts Behcet Sarikaya
- Re: 3114 active Internet-drafts (3226 now) Carsten Bormann