Web Bot Auth in 2026: Shipped Before It's a Standard
August 12, 2026
Web Bot Auth gates AI agent traffic at Cloudflare, AWS, Akamai and Vercel. The IETF working group behind it has not adopted a single draft as of 2026.
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IETF Weighs an AI Agent Protocol Standard in 2026
July 24, 2026
At IETF 126 in Vienna, the agentproto BoF put AI agent protocols like MCP and A2A under standards-body scrutiny. Here is what an IETF RFC would actually change.