I-D Action: draft-faibish-llm-security-interop-00.txt

Internet-Draft draft-faibish-llm-security-interop-00.txt is now available.

   Title:   The Case for an IETF Working Group on Large Language Model Security and Interoperability
   Author:  Sorin Faibish
   Name:    draft-faibish-llm-security-interop-00.txt
   Pages:   11
   Dates:   2026-07-24

Abstract:

   Large Language Models (LLMs) are now accessed as network services by
   a large and growing number of applications, yet the way they are
   invoked, secured, described, and attributed has coalesced around
   vendor-specific and de facto interfaces rather than open, neutral
   standards.  The most consequential gap is in security: there is no
   common, analyzable model for authenticating to an LLM service,
   authorizing tool invocation, protecting and attributing output, or
   reasoning about the trust boundary an LLM sits on.  These models also
   sit directly on top of network storage: LLM training data, model
   checkpoints, and retrieval corpora are routinely served from NFSv4
   and pNFS, so the security, provenance, and access-control questions
   raised here have concrete NFSv4-facing consequences.  This document
   argues that uniting the multitude of competing LLMs behind a common,
   secure, interoperable interface is fundamentally the kind of problem
   the IETF exists to solve, and it makes the case for chartering a new
   IETF Working Group.  It sets out the problem with security as the
   central motivation, describes the interaction with NFSv4 and network
   storage, records the initial expressions of interest that any such
   effort must be able to show, proposes a candidate scope with concrete
   deliverables and explicit non-goals, addresses the principal
   objections, and describes the intended path to chartering through a
   Dispatch presentation or a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session.  This
   document is Informational and defines no protocol.

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