Some news, July 2025

Since the last CG meeting, some participants have been following the ongoing AI Pref project at the IETF. Intensive discussions are still ongoing there (email archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ai-control/); currently, the Vocabulary for Expressing AI Usage Preferences, initially drafted within the Open Future initiative, is gaining traction and has been expanded to also address AI inference, a complex matter to be further evaluated within the CG, especially in relation of AI search (current draft: https://ietf-wg-aipref.github.io/drafts/draft-ietf-aipref-vocab.html). Members of this group with a technical expertise are invited to check the public exchanges on AI Pref at the IETF and participate if they wish.

The CG is monitoring IETF developments to evaluate the possibility of aligning the respective solutions for a more granular definition of AI usage, at least in part. This process, as well as the continuation of the discussion on the standardisaton of the protocol, is likely to take place in September.