Agent Readiness

Web Bot Auth (draft)

IETF draft layering an "identified bot" profile on top of RFC 9421. A provider that publishes a directory of verified agent identities — or surfaces Web Bot Auth verdicts in its responses — is making agent traffic legible at the protocol layer instead of inferring it from User-Agent strings.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture/

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: agent-readiness:web-bot-auth
name: Web Bot Auth (draft)
tags:
- Identity
- Bot Auth
- Agent Readiness
- Standards
humanURL: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture/
baseURL: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture/
properties:
- url: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meunier-web-bot-auth-architecture/
  type: Documentation
description: IETF draft layering an "identified bot" profile on top of RFC 9421. A provider that publishes
  a directory of verified agent identities — or surfaces Web Bot Auth verdicts in its responses — is making
  agent traffic legible at the protocol layer instead of inferring it from User-Agent strings.