Re: 3114 active Internet-drafts

On 07-Jul-26 05:11, Nathanael Ritz wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2026 at 10:36, Carsten Bormann <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     At 1600Z, kramdown-rfc-cache-i-d-bibxml finds 3114 active Internet-drafts going into IETF 126.
>     I didn’t keep statistics, but this seems more than I’m used to.
> 
>     8 hours to go…
> 
>     Grüße, Carsten
> 
> I wonder how many of those are competing Agentic AI protocol I-Ds, written by Agentic AI? The upshot is that all of those require a human in the loop to show up at the actual WG meetings, so there is that. I would love to know the baseline statistics.

I haven't done any real anlalysis, but I think we are seeing numerous "suites" of AI-generated I-Ds with closely related file names (the "ipv8" suite a few months ago was an example). That does make them a bit easier to identify and ignore as a group.

However, looking at the 300 most recent I-D announcements (i.e a sample of the deadline rush), I don't see that pattern. I see about 35% of WG drafts and 65% of individual drafts.

     Brian