Re: BCP 78 policy / copyright / Generative AI / LLM .. is there a FAQ?

Job Snijders <job@sobornost.net> Mon, 18 August 2025 16:54 UTC

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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:53:56 +0000
From: Job Snijders <job@sobornost.net>
To: Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
Subject: Re: BCP 78 policy / copyright / Generative AI / LLM .. is there a FAQ?
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 09:43:04AM -0700, Joe Touch wrote:
> > On Aug 18, 2025, at 9:16 AM, Colin Perkins <csp@csperkins.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I’m unconvinced it would make sense as a policy for IETF to adopt
> > for standards documents.
> 
> Why not?
> 
> Or, in response to such generated drafts, why wouldn’t I just ask AI
> to generate a 5GB “expert” review of such documents?

Such a strategy seems problematic, it there might be unintended negative
consequences such as people leaving working groups because the stream of
information became unmanagable.

Kind regards,

Job