Re: AI slop "contributions" to IETF working groups

[Orie <[e-mail]>]

We worked on this draft at the last hackathon:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-steele-agent-considerations/

We used A LOT of AI (Claude Code / Opus) to hack it along the way... and I
think it shows.

At the time we were focused on trying to centralize guidance authors might
want to make in a document towards agents reading the document, but as I
have increasingly been using agents as an author, I wonder if it would be
be wise to also add guidance to this section on which agents / models were
used to produce the text.

TLDR:

## Agent Considerations

### Guidance to Agents Consuming the Document

### Agents Used To Produce The Document (new)

OS, no hats (and no AI used to produce this email)


On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 7:56 PM John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:

> It appears that Bob Hinden  <[e-mail]> said:
> >I like the idea of requiring a disclosure that an Internet Draft was
> written with AI tools.  I agree probably not for emails.
>
> I expect that the people whose drafts most suffer from being written by an
> LLM will lie about it, either because
> their English is too poor to understand the rules, or they have perverse
> incentives like an an employer that
> gives them a bonus for publishing an RFC.
>
> Then what?  I'm not saying we shouldn't ask, but I'm saying we need to be
> prepared for noncompliance.
>
> R's,
> John
>
>