I-D Action: draft-vaughan-machine-readability-01.txt

Internet-Draft draft-vaughan-machine-readability-01.txt is now available.

   Title:   Defining Machine Readability for Usage Preferences and Policy Expression
   Author:  Thom Vaughan
   Name:    draft-vaughan-machine-readability-01.txt
   Pages:   19
   Dates:   2026-07-24

Abstract:

   The term "machine readable" is widely invoked when content usage
   preferences, rights, and legal terms are expressed for automated
   consumption, but it is rarely defined with enough precision to be
   actionable.  This document resolves the term into two core criteria,
   parseability and interpretability, which are properties of an
   expression itself, and three further dimensions (discoverability,
   actionability, and verifiability) which are orthogonal to the core
   criteria and to one another, concerning as they do the expression's
   place in a transaction rather than its content alone.  Together these
   determine whether an expression of preferences or policy can be
   reliably acted upon by a non-human agent without human intervention.
   This document applies the framework to usage preferences and legal
   terms of service.

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