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Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Tue, 10 February 2026 18:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: AI slop "contributions" to IETF working groups
To: Robert Moskowitz <rgm-ietf@htt-consult.com>
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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Robert Moskowitz wrote on 10/02/2026 16:20:
> He won. He penetrated every system and technology and did it faster 
> than anyone else.  And there were two really experienced industry 
> attack teams there. 

for a pen-test, you only need to succeed once. If you execute 10 things 
which are obviously wrong, it doesn't matter a whole lot. If you're 
writing a protocol specification, or contributing to a discussion on an 
ietf WG and if you have a hit rate of 10%, it matters a lot.

Nick

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