Re: Dealing with LLMs in IETF discussions draft

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

On 01-Aug-26 06:09, Laurence Lundblade wrote:
> My top-of-mind reaction: people are responsible for what they post.
> 
> If someone is using AI well and their posts are good, great! If not, we’ll learn that and pay less attention to them.
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> An important guideline: you are responsible for what you post.

This. You own your spelling mistakes, your technical mistakes, and any LLM hallucinations
that you transmit.  And it is no excuse to say that the LLM messed up your homework.

     Brian

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> If you blast out lots of AI-originated text that you haven’t reviewed thoroughly and maybe don’t even understand, your credibility in the IETF is going to decline. At some level, not understanding what you post even becomes a basis for moderators prohibiting posts from you.
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> LL
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>> On Jul 30, 2026, at 6:20 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell=[e-mail]> wrote:
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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 [e-mail]
>> (which could be contracted to [e-mail]:-) 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/
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