[
  {
    "name": "draft-cowles-volt",
    "title": "Verifiable Operations Ledger and Trace (VOLT) Protocol",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cowles-volt/",
    "pages": 40,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.85,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines tamper-evident execution trace format for AI agent workflows using hash chains and cryptographic integrity. Provides privacy-first audit trails for agent operations.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel approach to AI agent auditability and transparency",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 40-page specification with detailed technical design",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on verifiable agent operation logging",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical need for AI transparency and accountability",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for trustworthy AI agent deployments",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-aylward-daap-v2",
    "title": "Distributed AI Accountability Protocol (DAAP) Version 2.0",
    "date": "2026-01-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-aylward-daap-v2/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.8,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines comprehensive protocol for AI agent accountability including authentication, monitoring, and remote control. Addresses AI safety through cryptographic identity verification and behavioral oversight.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive approach to critical AI safety and accountability challenges",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed protocol with detailed security and governance mechanisms",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on comprehensive AI accountability and safety controls",
    "momentum_note": "High urgency due to growing AI safety concerns and regulatory pressure",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant given current AI safety and governance discussions",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-guy-bary-stamp-protocol",
    "title": "Secure Task-bound Agent Message Proof (STAMP) Protocol",
    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-guy-bary-stamp-protocol/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.65,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines STAMP protocol for cryptographic delegation and proof in AI agent systems. Provides task-bound tokens and integrates with OAuth 2.0 and zero-trust principles.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel cryptographic approach specifically designed for agent delegation and task binding",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed protocol specification with clear integration points",
    "overlap_note": "Unique protocol design, minimal overlap with existing auth mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "Strong technical approach likely to attract security and auth working group attention",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for secure agent deployments and enterprise adoption",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-drake-email-tpm-attestation",
    "title": "Hardware Attestation for Email Sender Verification",
    "date": "2026-02-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-drake-email-tpm-attestation/",
    "pages": 25,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.65,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines hardware attestation for email using TPM verification chains to prevent spam and provide Sybil resistance. Includes privacy-preserving SD-JWT alternative and broader applicability to other protocols.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel approach connecting hardware attestation to email authentication and AI-resistant spam prevention",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive specification with both full attestation and privacy-preserving variants",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to hardware-based sender verification, no significant overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical AI-era challenge of distinguishing human-controlled from automated systems",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for AI era where traditional spam/authentication mechanisms may fail",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-williams-netmod-lm-hierarchy-topology",
    "title": "Hierarchical Topology for Language Model Coordination",
    "date": "2026-02-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-williams-netmod-lm-hierarchy-topology/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.65,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines YANG data model for hierarchical language model coordination across tiny, small, and large LMs in distributed inference scenarios. Includes secure messaging, request escalation, and pluggable trust models for edge-to-cloud AI deployments.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel hierarchical LM coordination architecture with comprehensive security and trust mechanisms",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured YANG model with clear architecture but needs interoperability testing",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to hierarchical LM coordination with formal data modeling",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical need for distributed AI inference coordination",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for edge AI, federated inference, and multi-tier AI system coordination",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lake-app-profiles",
    "title": "Coordinating the Use of Application Profiles for Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lake-app-profiles/",
    "pages": 61,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.6,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines canonical CBOR representation for EDHOC application profiles and coordination mechanisms for their use. Establishes standardized way to describe, distribute, and store EDHOC parameters while defining well-known profiles for interoperability.",
    "novelty_note": "High novelty in standardizing application profile coordination for lightweight protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Very mature and comprehensive specification with detailed technical framework",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to application profile coordination with minimal overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum from LAKE working group with broad industry interest",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for EDHOC deployment and interoperability across various applications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lake-edhoc",
    "title": "Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)",
    "date": "2024-03-21",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lake-edhoc/",
    "pages": 113,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.6,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies EDHOC, a compact authenticated Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol for constrained environments. Provides mutual authentication, forward secrecy, and identity protection using COSE, CBOR, and CoAP.",
    "novelty_note": "Strong novelty in creating lightweight authenticated key exchange for constrained devices",
    "maturity_note": "Mature 113-page specification from IETF working group, well-developed protocol",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to lightweight authenticated key exchange, minimal overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Official IETF working group draft with strong momentum and adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for IoT security and constrained device communications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-goswami-agentic-jwt",
    "title": "Secure Intent Protocol: JWT Compatible Agentic Identity and Workflow Management",
    "date": "2026-01-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-goswami-agentic-jwt/",
    "pages": 71,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.55,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth 2.0 with Agentic JWT to address authorization challenges in autonomous AI systems. Introduces cryptographic agent identity and workflow-aware token binding to solve intent-execution separation.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses fundamental new problem of intent-execution separation in AI agents",
    "maturity_note": "Extensive 71-page specification with security analysis and validation",
    "overlap_note": "Novel approach to OAuth extension with minimal overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical security needs for enterprise AI adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for secure autonomous agent deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chang-agent-token-efficient",
    "title": "A Token-efficient Data Layer for Agentic Communication",
    "date": "2026-01-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chang-agent-token-efficient/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.55,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines ADOL (Agentic Data Optimization Layer) to address token bloat in agent communication protocols. Introduces schema deduplication, adaptive fields, and retrieval-based selection.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel approach to token efficiency problem, introduces concrete technical solutions with ADOL framework",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed technical solution with specific mechanisms and backward compatibility",
    "overlap_note": "Addresses efficiency concerns not directly tackled by other agent communication drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Solves real performance problem with practical implementation approach",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant as LLM token costs and context limits are major practical constraints",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-calabria-bmwg-ai-fabric-inference-bench",
    "title": "Benchmarking Methodology for AI Inference Serving Network Fabrics",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-calabria-bmwg-ai-fabric-inference-bench/",
    "pages": 40,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.55,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines benchmarking methodology for AI inference network fabrics. Establishes KPIs and test procedures for evaluating fabric performance under realistic inference workloads.",
    "novelty_note": "First comprehensive benchmarking framework for AI inference fabrics",
    "maturity_note": "Extensive 40-page methodology with detailed test procedures and KPIs",
    "overlap_note": "Unique benchmarking focus with minimal overlap to other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical need for standardized AI fabric performance evaluation",
    "relevance_note": "Essential for comparing and optimizing AI inference infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wang-cats-odsi",
    "title": "An Open, Decentralized, and Scalable Framework for Large Language Model Inference",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-cats-odsi/",
    "pages": 30,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.55,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies framework for decentralized LLM inference across untrusted participants with layer-aware execution. Addresses openness, scalability, and security challenges in distributed AI inference.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to decentralized, trustless LLM inference with layer-aware coordination",
    "maturity_note": "Substantial document with comprehensive framework though protocol details deferred",
    "overlap_note": "Some conceptual overlap with IDN but focuses on decentralization and security",
    "momentum_note": "Lengthy detailed document suggests significant development effort and commitment",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses critical challenges in scalable, open AI infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-birkholz-verifiable-agent-conversations",
    "title": "Verifiable Agent Conversation Records",
    "date": "2026-02-25",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-birkholz-verifiable-agent-conversations/",
    "pages": 51,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines CDDL-based data format for verifiable agent conversation records using COSE signing. Supports accountability, compliance, and cross-vendor interoperability for agent interactions.",
    "novelty_note": "Verifiable conversation records for agents is novel and addresses important trust concerns",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 51-page specification with detailed CDDL definitions shows high maturity",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on existing standards but application to agent conversations is unique",
    "momentum_note": "Established author with detailed specification suggests strong momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for agent accountability and regulatory compliance",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-aylward-aiga-2",
    "title": "AI Governance and Accountability Protocol (AIGA)",
    "date": "2026-01-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-aylward-aiga-2/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.45,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Comprehensive AI governance framework with tiered risk model, federated authority network, and economic incentive alignment. Includes advanced security mechanisms for high-assurance scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel integration of technical enforcement, economic incentives, and federated governance",
    "maturity_note": "Ambitious scope with detailed mechanisms but implementation complexity may be challenging",
    "overlap_note": "Unique comprehensive approach to AI governance with technical enforcement",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical regulatory and safety concerns with strong technical foundation",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant given increasing focus on AI safety and regulatory compliance",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem",
    "title": "Post-quantum hybrid ECDHE-MLKEM Key Agreement for TLSv1.3",
    "date": "2026-02-17",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.4,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines hybrid post-quantum key agreement mechanisms for TLS 1.3 that combine ML-KEM with traditional ECDHE. Provides quantum-resistant security while maintaining compatibility with existing elliptic curve cryptography.",
    "novelty_note": "Post-quantum hybrid approach is relatively novel, combining established ECDHE with new ML-KEM standard",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed 12-page specification from IETF working group, ready for implementation",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on TLS 1.3 post-quantum hybrids, minimal overlap with other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "High momentum - post-quantum cryptography is critical priority with strong industry support",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for future-proofing TLS against quantum computing threats",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-aipref-vocab",
    "title": "A Vocabulary For Expressing AI Usage Preferences",
    "date": "2025-12-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-aipref-vocab/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.4,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a standardized vocabulary for expressing preferences about how digital assets should be used by automated processing systems. Allows declaration of restrictions or permissions for AI and other automated systems.",
    "novelty_note": "Core vocabulary specification is novel approach to standardizing AI usage preferences",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed 13-page spec from IETF working group with clear scope",
    "overlap_note": "Foundation vocabulary that other drafts build upon, minimal direct overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Official IETF working group draft with recent publication date",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as foundational specification for emerging AI content governance needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-cui-nmrg-llm-benchmark",
    "title": "A Framework to Evaluate LLM Agents for Network Configuration",
    "date": "2025-12-30",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cui-nmrg-llm-benchmark/",
    "pages": 25,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.35,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Provides comprehensive evaluation framework for LLM-based network configuration agents. Includes emulator environment, task suites, and multi-dimensional assessment metrics.",
    "novelty_note": "First standardized benchmarking framework for LLM network agents",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed framework with clear metrics and comprehensive evaluation approach",
    "overlap_note": "No similar standardized benchmarking approaches identified",
    "momentum_note": "Strong research interest in LLM network applications drives relevance",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for advancing LLM network applications with standardized evaluation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-anima-constrained-voucher",
    "title": "Constrained Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructure (cBRSKI)",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-constrained-voucher/",
    "pages": 93,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.35,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Adapts BRSKI secure device onboarding for constrained IoT environments using CBOR vouchers and CoAP/DTLS. Enables zero-touch bootstrapping in resource-limited and lossy networks.",
    "novelty_note": "Significant adaptation of BRSKI for constrained environments with new encoding and transport",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 93-page specification with detailed protocol adaptations and implementations",
    "overlap_note": "Builds heavily on BRSKI but targets different deployment scenario",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft addressing growing IoT security bootstrapping needs",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for IoT deployments requiring secure zero-touch onboarding",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-hpke-hpke",
    "title": "Hybrid Public Key Encryption",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-hpke-hpke/",
    "pages": 85,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.3,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Comprehensive specification for hybrid public key encryption supporting arbitrary-sized plaintexts. Includes pre-shared key authentication and works with various KEM/KDF/AEAD combinations.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty as hybrid encryption concept exists but comprehensive standardization adds value",
    "maturity_note": "Mature IETF working group standard with extensive development and review",
    "overlap_note": "Relatively unique comprehensive approach to hybrid PKE standardization",
    "momentum_note": "Strong IETF momentum with wide industry interest and implementation",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant as fundamental cryptographic building block for modern protocols",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mw-wimse-transitive-attestation",
    "title": "Transitive Attestation for Sovereign Workloads: A WIMSE Profile",
    "date": "2026-02-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mw-wimse-transitive-attestation/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.3,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines WIMSE profile for cryptographically binding workload identities to their execution environment to prevent credential misuse. Addresses AI agent security concerns including prompt injection and cross-jurisdictional movement.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to workload identity portability with specific focus on AI agent security risks",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage profile with dependencies on other draft specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on WIMSE framework but addresses unique AI agent security challenges",
    "momentum_note": "Very high momentum due to urgent AI security needs and regulatory concerns",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for AI agent deployment security and autonomous system integrity",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wmz-nmrg-agent-ndt-arch",
    "title": "Network Digital Twin and Agentic AI based Architecture for AI driven Network Operations",
    "date": "2026-02-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wmz-nmrg-agent-ndt-arch/",
    "pages": 37,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Comprehensive architecture combining Network Digital Twin with Agentic AI for intent-based network operations. Provides detailed cookbook approach using existing technologies enhanced with new AI capabilities.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel integration of NDT and Agentic AI for network operations",
    "maturity_note": "Substantial 37-page document with detailed architectural components",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on digital twin integration with agent architecture",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum with comprehensive content and clear use cases",
    "relevance_note": "highly relevant to current industry needs for AI-driven network automation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-dhir-http-agent-profile",
    "title": "HTTP Agent Profile (HAP): Authenticated and Monetized Agent Traffic on the Web",
    "date": "2025-11-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dhir-http-agent-profile/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines HTTP Agent Profile for authenticating agent traffic, separating human from agent traffic, and enabling micropayments for content access. Addresses economic misalignment between content providers and AI systems.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel integration of authentication, traffic separation, and micropayments for agent HTTP traffic",
    "maturity_note": "Mature approach reusing existing HTTP features with clear deployment path",
    "overlap_note": "Unique combination of authentication and monetization for agent traffic",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses pressing real-world problems with practical deployment strategy",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant to current challenges with AI crawlers and web monetization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chen-oauth-rar-agent-extensions",
    "title": "Policy and Lifecycle Extensions for OAuth Rich Authorization Requests",
    "date": "2026-02-04",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-oauth-rar-agent-extensions/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth RAR with policy_context and lifecycle_binding members for AI agent environments. Enables policy assurance levels and task-bound authorization lifetimes.",
    "novelty_note": "Concrete extensions to established OAuth RAR standard, novel lifecycle binding concept",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured technical solution building on RFC 9396, includes specific implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on OAuth RAR but addresses distinct AI agent requirements not covered elsewhere",
    "momentum_note": "Strong technical foundation on established standard, clear implementation path",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for securing AI agent interactions with practical OAuth integration",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-aylward-aiga-1",
    "title": "AI Governance and Accountability Protocol (AIGA)",
    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-aylward-aiga-1/",
    "pages": 20,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies AI Governance and Accountability Protocol with tiered risk-based governance model. Includes immutable kernel architecture and federated authority network for AI agent oversight.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive governance protocol specifically for autonomous AI agents",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured protocol specification with detailed mechanisms",
    "overlap_note": "Novel AI governance approach, limited overlap with existing protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Detailed technical specification suggests strong development momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for AI agent deployment in networked environments",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mallick-muacp",
    "title": "The Micro Agent Communication Protocol (uACP)",
    "date": "2026-01-17",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mallick-muacp/",
    "pages": 37,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Resource-efficient messaging protocol specifically designed for constrained IoT/Edge devices with deterministic bounds. Provides concrete technical specifications with OSCORE security integration.",
    "novelty_note": "First protocol addressing resource constraints with specific bounds for agent communication",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed technical specifications with clear resource bounds and security binding",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on resource-constrained environments distinguishes from general protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Strong technical foundation and clear market need for IoT agent communication",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for IoT/Edge AI deployment which is rapidly expanding market segment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-aap-oauth-profile",
    "title": "Agent Authorization Profile (AAP) for OAuth 2.0",
    "date": "2026-02-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-aap-oauth-profile/",
    "pages": 83,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines an OAuth 2.0 authorization profile specifically for autonomous AI agents, extending existing standards with structured claims for agent identity and context. Enables context-aware, auditable authorization in agent-to-API scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of OAuth to AI agents with thoughtful extensions for autonomous systems",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 83-page specification with detailed technical mechanisms",
    "overlap_note": "Some conceptual overlap with agent identity themes but distinct OAuth focus",
    "momentum_note": "Strong relevance to enterprise AI deployment and security concerns",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant to current AI agent security and authorization challenges",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-gaikwad-llm-benchmarking-methodology",
    "title": "Benchmarking Methodology for Large Language Model Serving",
    "date": "2026-01-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gaikwad-llm-benchmarking-methodology/",
    "pages": 48,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines comprehensive benchmarking methodologies for LLM inference serving systems including test procedures and measurement specifications. Companion to terminology document.",
    "novelty_note": "Thorough methodology development for emerging LLM benchmarking needs",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed at 48 pages with detailed procedures and specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Part of series but methodology focus is relatively unique",
    "momentum_note": "Part of coordinated effort with multiple related drafts",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for standardizing LLM performance evaluation across industry",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-sshm-mlkem-hybrid-kex",
    "title": "PQ/T Hybrid Key Exchange with ML-KEM in SSH",
    "date": "2026-03-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sshm-mlkem-hybrid-kex/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines post-quantum hybrid key exchange combining ML-KEM with traditional ECDH for SSH transport layer. Provides quantum resistance while maintaining compatibility.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel hybrid approach combining quantum-resistant and traditional crypto",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed IETF draft addressing critical post-quantum needs",
    "overlap_note": "Part of broader post-quantum cryptography efforts but SSH-specific",
    "momentum_note": "High momentum due to post-quantum migration urgency",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for quantum-resistant SSH implementations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-tls-extended-key-update",
    "title": "Extended Key Update for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-extended-key-update/",
    "pages": 41,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Adds post-compromise security to TLS 1.3 through fresh Diffie-Hellman exchanges during active sessions. Particularly valuable for long-lived connections in IoT and telecom environments.",
    "novelty_note": "Significant security enhancement addressing post-compromise scenarios not covered by existing KeyUpdate",
    "maturity_note": "Substantial 40-page specification with clear security motivation and detailed mechanism",
    "overlap_note": "Extends TLS 1.3 in novel direction, minimal overlap with other key management approaches",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft addressing important security gap in long-lived sessions",
    "relevance_note": "Critical security improvement for TLS, especially relevant for IoT and industrial applications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-calabria-bmwg-ai-fabric-terminology",
    "title": "Benchmarking Terminology for AI Network Fabrics",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-calabria-bmwg-ai-fabric-terminology/",
    "pages": 30,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines comprehensive benchmarking terminology for AI network fabrics including collective communication primitives and RDMA transport mechanisms. Establishes vendor-neutral vocabulary for AI networking performance evaluation.",
    "novelty_note": "Significant contribution to standardizing AI networking terminology",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed terminology framework with clear scope and references",
    "overlap_note": "Extends existing benchmarking RFCs but focuses on new AI domain",
    "momentum_note": "Strong foundation work that enables broader AI networking standardization",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as foundational work for AI infrastructure standardization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-spring-rdma-multicast-over-srv6",
    "title": "SRv6 Extensions for RDMA Multicast Delivery",
    "date": "2026-03-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-spring-rdma-multicast-over-srv6/",
    "pages": 17,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies SRv6 extensions for RDMA multicast delivery with new End.MT behavior and ACK/NACK aggregation procedures. Targets AI training parameter distribution and distributed storage scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel combination of RDMA multicast semantics with SRv6 segment routing",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed technical specification with clear protocol extensions",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to RDMA multicast - limited overlap with existing work",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical scalability needs for distributed AI workloads",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for large-scale AI training and inference deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-song-tsvwg-camp",
    "title": "Consistency-Aware Multipath Transport (CAMP) toward Interactive Multimodal LLM-Based Systems",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-song-tsvwg-camp/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes CAMP, a multipath transport protocol for interactive multimodal LLM systems that maintains consistency across different modalities. Builds on MPQUIC with specialized scheduling for audio, video, and text streams.",
    "novelty_note": "First work addressing multipath consistency for multimodal LLM applications",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive technical specification with detailed protocol design and mechanisms",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on MPQUIC but addresses unique multimodal consistency challenges",
    "momentum_note": "High momentum due to growing interactive LLM applications and multimodal AI systems",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for emerging interactive AI applications requiring real-time multimodal delivery",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-barnes-hpke-hpke",
    "title": "Hybrid Public Key Encryption",
    "date": "2025-05-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-barnes-hpke-hpke/",
    "pages": 125,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines hybrid public key encryption scheme supporting authenticated variants and flexible cryptographic primitives. Provides framework for secure encryption with multiple authentication modes.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel hybrid approach combining multiple cryptographic primitives with authentication options",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive specification with detailed instantiations using standard primitives",
    "overlap_note": "Unique hybrid approach with limited overlap to existing encryption schemes",
    "momentum_note": "CFRG product with strong cryptographic research backing",
    "relevance_note": "Very high relevance as fundamental cryptographic building block for secure communications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-grow-va",
    "title": "FIB Suppression with Virtual Aggregation",
    "date": "2024-12-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-va/",
    "pages": 24,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Virtual Aggregation (VA) enables FIB suppression to reduce routing table size in routers by an order of magnitude. The approach can be deployed autonomously by ISPs without inter-ISP cooperation and coexists with legacy equipment.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to addressing DFRT growth through FIB suppression",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed 24-page document from established IETF working group",
    "overlap_note": "Some related work on routing table optimization but unique approach",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft with strong institutional backing",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses critical Internet scaling challenges",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-narajala-ans",
    "title": "Agent Name Service (ANS): A Universal Directory for Secure AI Agent Discovery and Interoperability",
    "date": "2025-11-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-narajala-ans/",
    "pages": 48,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.2,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces Agent Name Service (ANS) as a DNS-based universal directory for AI agent discovery and verification. Uses PKI certificates for agent identity and supports multiple communication protocols through adapter layers.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive novel architecture addressing fundamental AI agent discovery and trust challenges",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured specification but complex system requiring significant implementation and deployment effort",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with DNS and PKI concepts but unique application to AI agent ecosystem",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical infrastructure need with potential for broad adoption if implementation challenges are overcome",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant as foundational infrastructure for multi-agent systems and AI agent interoperability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-oauth-transaction-tokens-for-agents",
    "title": "Transaction Tokens For Agents",
    "date": "2026-02-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-oauth-transaction-tokens-for-agents/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.15,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth Transaction Tokens framework to support agent context propagation with actor and principal fields. Enables granular access control for agent-based workloads.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel extension addressing agent-specific authorization needs",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed with clear technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on existing OAuth framework but adds agent-specific elements",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum with concrete technical approach",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for agent security and authorization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhang-dmsc-mas-communication",
    "title": "Security Analysis of Multi-agents Secured Communication and Limitations of Existing Protocols",
    "date": "2026-01-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-dmsc-mas-communication/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.15,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes security risks in multi-agent communication and limitations of existing protocols like TLS and HTTP. Establishes problem statement for agent-native security needs.",
    "novelty_note": "Good analysis of agent-specific security challenges not well addressed by current protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Solid problem analysis but lacks proposed solutions",
    "overlap_note": "Unique security analysis perspective on agent communication",
    "momentum_note": "Security analysis likely to generate significant community interest and discussion",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant as agent systems need security models beyond traditional web protocols",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jewell-aibdp",
    "title": "AI Boundary Declaration Protocol (AIBDP)",
    "date": "2026-02-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jewell-aibdp/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.15,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines AI Boundary Declaration Protocol for expressing content usage boundaries for AI systems. Provides machine-readable permissions and denials for AI training, indexing, and access.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel approach to AI governance through declarative boundary protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Short at 6 pages, appears early stage despite comprehensive scope claims",
    "overlap_note": "Some conceptual overlap with robots.txt but significantly different focus on AI boundaries",
    "momentum_note": "High relevance to current AI governance debates suggests good momentum potential",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant to current AI ethics and governance concerns",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-dmsc-macp",
    "title": "Multi-agent Collaboration Protocol Suite",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-dmsc-macp/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.15,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies a comprehensive multi-agent collaboration protocol suite using Agent Gateways for registration, authentication, and capability management. Enables scalable semantic interactions among distributed agents across heterogeneous networks.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive protocol suite with gateway architecture is well-conceived",
    "maturity_note": "Substantial 21-page specification with detailed protocol design",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with other agent communication protocols but more comprehensive",
    "momentum_note": "Large document suggests significant development effort and potential industry interest",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses core multi-agent collaboration needs with practical approach",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-gaikwad-llm-benchmarking-profiles",
    "title": "Performance Benchmarking Profiles for Large Language Model Serving Systems",
    "date": "2026-01-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gaikwad-llm-benchmarking-profiles/",
    "pages": 53,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.15,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines performance benchmarking profiles binding terminology and methodology to concrete architectural roles and workload patterns. Specifies System Under Test boundaries and measurement points.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive profile definition for reproducible LLM benchmarking",
    "maturity_note": "Highly mature at 53 pages with detailed architectural specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Builds directly on companion methodology and terminology documents",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum as part of comprehensive benchmarking framework",
    "relevance_note": "Essential for standardized, comparable LLM performance evaluation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-lake-pocero-authkem-ikr-edhoc",
    "title": "KEM-based Authentication for EDHOC in Initiator-Known Responder (IKR) Scenarios",
    "date": "2026-01-08",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lake-pocero-authkem-ikr-edhoc/",
    "pages": 26,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.15,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies an optimized KEM-based authentication variant for EDHOC protocol in scenarios where the initiator knows the responder's credentials. Enables post-quantum authentication with only three messages while maintaining mutual authentication and forward secrecy.",
    "novelty_note": "High novelty in optimizing post-quantum authentication for constrained environments with prior knowledge scenarios",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed technical specification building on established EDHOC framework",
    "overlap_note": "Builds heavily on existing EDHOC work but provides distinct optimization",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum from LAKE working group and post-quantum cryptography interest",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for IoT and constrained device security in post-quantum era",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yao-tsvwg-cco-requirement-and-analysis",
    "title": "Collective Communication Optimizations: Requirement and Analysis",
    "date": "2025-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yao-tsvwg-cco-requirement-and-analysis/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.15,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes collective communication optimizations for AI training and inference clusters built on RDMA. Examines network-assisted collective acceleration approaches and identifies gaps with current IETF standards like iWARP.",
    "novelty_note": "Detailed analysis of network optimization needs specific to AI workloads",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive analysis with clear requirements and technical depth",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with HPC networking but specific AI workload focus",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum due to massive AI infrastructure investments",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant as AI model sizes and training requirements continue growing",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-cui-dns-native-agent-naming-resolution",
    "title": "DNS-Native AI Agent Naming and Resolution",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cui-dns-native-agent-naming-resolution/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.1,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies DNS-native naming and resolution for AI agents using FQDNs and SVCB records. Emphasizes DNS as authoritative source with graceful degradation for legacy clients.",
    "novelty_note": "Creative use of existing DNS infrastructure for agent discovery and identity",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 26-page specification with detailed technical design",
    "overlap_note": "Unique DNS-based approach with minimal overlap to other agent work",
    "momentum_note": "Leverages proven DNS infrastructure but requires adoption momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for scalable agent ecosystems and internet integration",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-cowles-aee",
    "title": "Agent Envelope Exchange (AEE): A Minimal JSON Envelope Format for Inter-Agent Communication",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cowles-aee/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.1,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Agent Envelope Exchange defines a minimal 14-field JSON envelope format for inter-agent communication. It separates message routing concerns from payload semantics to enable portable workflows across heterogeneous agent frameworks.",
    "novelty_note": "Clean separation of envelope and payload is novel for agent communication",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 21-page specification with clear conformance levels",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with messaging standards but agent-specific focus is unique",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission but addresses emerging need for agent interop",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as foundational infrastructure for agent ecosystems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-annevk-johannhof-httpbis-cookies",
    "title": "Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism",
    "date": "2025-04-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-annevk-johannhof-httpbis-cookies/",
    "pages": 43,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.1,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Comprehensive revision of HTTP cookie mechanism, updating RFC 6265. Addresses security and privacy issues while maintaining backward compatibility for widely deployed technology.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental update to existing standard rather than novel approach",
    "maturity_note": "Mature 43-page specification ready to obsolete existing RFCs",
    "overlap_note": "Direct successor to RFC 6265, minimal overlap with other efforts",
    "momentum_note": "Critical web infrastructure update with broad industry impact",
    "relevance_note": "Essential for web security and privacy, affects all web interactions",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-agent-operation-authorization",
    "title": "Agent Operation Authorization",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-agent-operation-authorization/",
    "pages": 24,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies framework for verifiable delegation of actions from humans to AI agents using JWT tokens. Provides fine-grained authorization with cryptographic verification and audit trails.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel two-phase authorization framework with human-readable proposals and verifiable tokens",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined JWT-based approach but may need refinement for complex authorization scenarios",
    "overlap_note": "Specific focus on human-to-agent authorization delegation is relatively unique",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical trust and safety concerns with practical cryptographic approach",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for safe agent deployment and preventing unauthorized actions",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yue-anima-agent-recovery-networks",
    "title": "Task-Oriented Multi-Agent Recovery Framework for High-Reliability in Converged Mobile Networks",
    "date": "2026-02-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yue-anima-agent-recovery-networks/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines task-oriented multi-agent framework for fault recovery in converged mobile networks. Targets 5G/6G deployments like MOCN and SNPN where centralized management is insufficient.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of multi-agent systems to specific mobile network recovery challenges",
    "maturity_note": "Domain-specific approach with clear use cases but implementation details need development",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on mobile network recovery though shares general multi-agent concepts",
    "momentum_note": "5G/6G network complexity drives strong industry need for automated recovery solutions",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant as mobile networks become more complex and require autonomous management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-cui-nmrg-llm-nm",
    "title": "A Framework for LLM Agent-Assisted Network Management with Human-in-the-Loop",
    "date": "2025-10-19",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cui-nmrg-llm-nm/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines framework for collaborative network management between LLM agents and human operators. Introduces enhanced telemetry, decision modules, and human-in-the-loop workflows.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of LLMs to network management with structured human-agent collaboration",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive framework but likely early stage given emerging nature of LLM integration",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general AI/ML network management but specific LLM focus is distinctive",
    "momentum_note": "High current interest in LLM applications and network automation convergence",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant given industry focus on AI-assisted network operations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-schulze-ecap",
    "title": "The Ethical Crawler Agreement Protocol (ECAP)",
    "date": "2025-12-10",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schulze-ecap/",
    "pages": 3,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "ECAP defines a cryptographically-verified protocol for web crawlers to obtain consent from hosts before accessing resources. It replaces voluntary robots.txt with mandatory consent-based access using signatures and policy handshakes.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to making web crawling consent mandatory rather than voluntary, using crypto verification",
    "maturity_note": "Basic protocol structure defined but likely needs more detail on implementation and edge cases",
    "overlap_note": "Some conceptual overlap with robots.txt but fundamentally different approach with crypto verification",
    "momentum_note": "High relevance to current AI scraping debates and web consent issues",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant to current controversies around AI training data collection and web scraping ethics",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-nederveld-adl",
    "title": "Agent Definition Language (ADL)",
    "date": "2026-02-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nederveld-adl/",
    "pages": 53,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines ADL, a JSON-based standard for describing AI agents including their capabilities, tools, permissions, and configuration. Enables agent discovery, interoperability, and lifecycle management across platforms.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel standardized approach to agent description with comprehensive metadata coverage",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured spec but lacks implementation examples and ecosystem validation",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with agent identity/discovery concepts but unique in comprehensive agent description approach",
    "momentum_note": "Strong potential for adoption as foundational agent metadata standard",
    "relevance_note": "Critical infrastructure piece for agent ecosystem interoperability and management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mw-spice-actor-chain",
    "title": "Cryptographically Verifiable Actor Chain for OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange",
    "date": "2026-02-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mw-spice-actor-chain/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange with cryptographically verifiable actor chains to provide tamper-evident audit trails of delegation paths. Addresses security gaps in multi-hop service environments, particularly for AI agent-to-agent workloads vulnerable to prompt injection attacks.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to cryptographic delegation auditability in OAuth, specifically addressing AI agent prompt injection vulnerabilities",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured extension to established OAuth 2.0 framework with clear security motivations",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange but addresses previously unaddressed delegation auditability gaps",
    "momentum_note": "High relevance given growing AI agent deployments and security concerns around delegation chains",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses critical security needs for AI agent authentication and delegation tracking",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-spm-lake-pqsuites",
    "title": "Quantum-Resistant Cipher Suites for EDHOC",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-spm-lake-pqsuites/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines quantum-resistant cipher suites for EDHOC using ML-DSA signatures and ML-KEM key exchange. Specifies post-quantum operation for both signature and PSK authentication methods.",
    "novelty_note": "First comprehensive PQ cipher suite definition for EDHOC",
    "maturity_note": "Concise but technically sound specification",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on EDHOC post-quantum adaptation",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum due to LAKE working group activity",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for post-quantum IoT security infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jadoon-nmrg-agentic-ai-autonomous-networks",
    "title": "Agentic AI Architectural Principles for Autonomous Computer Networks",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jadoon-nmrg-agentic-ai-autonomous-networks/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces architectural principles for integrating AI agents into IP protocol stack layers while preserving deterministic protocol behavior. Proposes agent controllers for cross-layer coordination.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to layered agentic augmentation of existing protocols",
    "maturity_note": "12-page research document with solid architectural thinking",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to protocol stack integration",
    "momentum_note": "Strong conceptual foundation for research community discussion",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as foundational architecture for agentic networking",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chen-nmrg-semantic-inference-routing",
    "title": "Semantic Inference Routing Protocol (SIRP)",
    "date": "2025-10-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-nmrg-semantic-inference-routing/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines SIRP protocol for content-aware routing of AI inference requests. Enables routing decisions based on semantic analysis rather than just client metadata.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel semantic content analysis approach for inference routing",
    "maturity_note": "12-page specification with concrete protocol framework",
    "overlap_note": "Unique semantic routing approach with minimal overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical inference routing challenges with technical depth",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for optimizing distributed AI inference systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-rosenberg-ai-protocols",
    "title": "Framework, Use Cases and Requirements for AI Agent Protocols",
    "date": "2025-05-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rosenberg-ai-protocols/",
    "pages": 26,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Establishes framework for AI agent communications on the Internet, surveying existing protocols like MCP and A2A. Defines use cases and requirements to guide future IETF standardization efforts.",
    "novelty_note": "First comprehensive framework for AI agent protocol standardization",
    "maturity_note": "Framework document with clear structure but early stage",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing AI protocol efforts but unique in scope",
    "momentum_note": "High interest area with strong industry momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses core AI agent communication needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tschofenig-lamps-nonce-cmp-est",
    "title": "Nonce-based Freshness for Remote Attestation in Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) for the Certification Management Protocol (CMP) and for Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST)",
    "date": "2024-04-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tschofenig-lamps-nonce-cmp-est/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies nonce mechanisms for demonstrating freshness of attestation evidence in certificate signing requests. Covers both CMP and EST protocols.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel integration of attestation freshness with certificate protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Building on established protocols but new use case",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general attestation work",
    "momentum_note": "Growing interest in attestation and zero-trust architectures",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for secure device provisioning and attestation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-papon-lake-pq-edhoc",
    "title": "Post-Quantum EDHOC - Initiator and Responder using signature and/or KEM",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-papon-lake-pq-edhoc/",
    "pages": 49,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends EDHOC protocol with quantum-resistant features using post-quantum signatures and KEMs. Provides 3-message and 3-or-4-message variants balancing security and complexity.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel hybrid approach combining signatures and KEMs for quantum resistance in EDHOC",
    "maturity_note": "Solid technical approach but needs implementation validation and interoperability testing",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with other post-quantum EDHOC proposals but unique hybrid approach",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum given urgency of post-quantum cryptography adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for securing IoT and constrained device communications against quantum threats",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-steele-agent-considerations",
    "title": "Agent Considerations",
    "date": "2025-11-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-steele-agent-considerations/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines guidelines for IETF specifications to support AI agent consumption and code generation. Introduces Agent Consideration sections with agentcards and implementation guidance.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel meta-approach to specification design for AI agents",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive framework but still developing implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to specification methodology",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum, addressing emerging need",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for future IETF specification development",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chen-nmrg-multi-provider-inference-api",
    "title": "Multi-Provider Extensions for Agentic AI Inference APIs",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-nmrg-multi-provider-inference-api/",
    "pages": 44,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies extensions for multi-provider AI inference using OpenAI API as reference standard. Enables provider diversity, load balancing, and failover while maintaining backward compatibility.",
    "novelty_note": "Extends existing OpenAI API standard for multi-provider scenarios",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 44-page specification with detailed technical content",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with inference serving concepts but unique multi-provider focus",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses practical multi-provider challenges with mature specification",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for preventing vendor lock-in in AI inference deployments",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mishra-oauth-agent-grants",
    "title": "Delegated Agent Authorization Protocol (DAAP)",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mishra-oauth-agent-grants/",
    "pages": 40,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.0,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth 2.0 for AI agent authorization with human consent verification, revocation, and audit trails. Uses DIDs for agent identity and provides multi-agent delegation capabilities.",
    "novelty_note": "Agent-specific OAuth extension with DID integration and cascade revocation is novel",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed 27-page specification with clear protocol definitions",
    "overlap_note": "Extends OAuth 2.0 but agent-specific features reduce overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses clear market need but adoption uncertain",
    "relevance_note": "Essential for secure agent authorization in production systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lisp-nexagon",
    "title": "Geo-Intelligence Network Based On H3 and LISP",
    "date": "2025-09-23",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lisp-nexagon/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.0,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Combines LISP with H3 spatial indexing to create geospatial intelligence network for physical-world applications. Enables distributed agents to report, aggregate, and disseminate location-based state information for transportation and logistics.",
    "novelty_note": "Creative combination of LISP routing with H3 geospatial indexing for agent networks",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed protocol specification with clear technical foundation",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on LISP and H3 but novel combination for agent-based geospatial applications",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group adoption indicates strong momentum and community support",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for location-aware autonomous systems and IoT agent deployments",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-barney-caam",
    "title": "Contextual Agent Authorization Mesh (CAAM)",
    "date": "2026-02-25",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-barney-caam/",
    "pages": 33,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.0,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance",
      "A2A protocols",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies Contextual Agent Authorization Mesh for runtime authorization of agents after discovery, providing ReBAC and purpose-bound delegation. Integrates with ARDP, SPIFFE, and RATS for comprehensive agent authorization framework.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive authorization framework specifically designed for agent interactions with novel contextual authorization approach",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed technical specification with good integration of multiple existing frameworks",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on existing identity and authorization work but creates novel composition for agent scenarios",
    "momentum_note": "References multiple existing frameworks suggesting some industry alignment",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant as authorization is critical for safe agent deployment and inter-agent interaction",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-nennemann-wimse-ect",
    "title": "Execution Context Tokens for Distributed Agentic Workflows",
    "date": "2026-02-25",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nennemann-wimse-ect/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.0,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines Execution Context Tokens as JWT extension to WIMSE for tracking task execution in distributed agentic workflows. Creates DAG-linked execution records transported via new HTTP header alongside WIMSE identity headers.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to workflow execution tracking with cryptographic linking of task dependencies",
    "maturity_note": "Well-specified extension to existing WIMSE work with clear technical details",
    "overlap_note": "Extends WIMSE but addresses unique workflow tracking problem not covered elsewhere",
    "momentum_note": "Builds on active WIMSE working group with established momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for distributed agent workflows and auditability of agent task execution",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jennings-ai-mcp-over-moq",
    "title": "Model Context Protocol and Agent Skills over Media over QUIC Transport",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jennings-ai-mcp-over-moq/",
    "pages": 37,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.0,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines how to transport Model Context Protocol (MCP) messages over Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT) for AI agent communication. Focuses on efficient delivery of agent skills with progressive loading and caching.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel combination of MCP and MOQT with emphasis on agent skills delivery",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured 37-page specification with detailed transport mappings",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general agent communication but unique transport focus",
    "momentum_note": "Strong technical foundation building on established protocols",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for scalable AI agent communication infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-nandakumar-ai-agent-moq-transport",
    "title": "MOQ Transport for Agent Protocols",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nandakumar-ai-agent-moq-transport/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.0,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines abstraction layer for using MOQ Transport as unified substrate for inter-agent communication. Demonstrates application to A2A and MCP protocols.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of MOQT to agent protocols with specific abstraction layer design",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed technical specification with concrete protocol mappings and examples",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on MOQT but creates new abstraction specifically for agent communication",
    "momentum_note": "Strong technical foundation and addresses real interoperability challenges",
    "relevance_note": "Important for standardizing agent communication transport with real-time requirements",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-bootstrapping",
    "title": "Automatic DNSSEC Bootstrapping using Authenticated Signals from the Zone's Operator",
    "date": "2024-07-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-bootstrapping/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.0,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces automated DNSSEC bootstrapping using authenticated signals from zone operators. Enables cryptographic validation of CDS/CDNSKEY records without out-of-band processes.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel in-band method for DNSSEC bootstrapping replacing manual processes",
    "maturity_note": "Mature specification from established working group with clear implementation path",
    "overlap_note": "Updates existing RFCs but provides unique automated approach",
    "momentum_note": "Active IETF working group item with collaborative development on GitHub",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for DNS infrastructure automation and security",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe-mlkem",
    "title": "Post-quantum hybrid ECDHE-MLKEM Key Agreement for TLSv1.3",
    "date": "2025-02-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe-mlkem/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.0,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines three hybrid key agreement methods for TLS 1.3 combining post-quantum ML-KEM with elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman. Provides concrete ciphersuites for quantum-safe TLS.",
    "novelty_note": "Standard application of established hybrid approach to TLS, well-executed but incremental",
    "maturity_note": "Mature specification with clear definitions and practical focus",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with other TLS post-quantum proposals but different KEM choices",
    "momentum_note": "Very high momentum due to NIST ML-KEM standardization and TLS deployment needs",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for widespread TLS quantum readiness",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mapmw-task-discovery",
    "title": "Task discovery in agentic networks",
    "date": "2026-03-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mapmw-task-discovery/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 4.0,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines an architectural framework for task-centric agent discovery where task owners publish structured task cards to platforms. Autonomous agents can discover tasks, negotiate terms, and coordinate multi-agent collaboration through defined functional layers.",
    "novelty_note": "Task-centric approach is novel complement to agent-to-agent discovery",
    "maturity_note": "Thorough 21-page architecture with survey of existing approaches",
    "overlap_note": "Acknowledges and builds on existing agent discovery mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission but addresses clear gap in current approaches",
    "relevance_note": "Essential for enabling open agent marketplaces and collaboration",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-dunbar-neotec-ac-te-applicability",
    "title": "Applying Attachmet Circuit and Traffic Engineering YANG Data Model to Edge AI Use Case",
    "date": "2025-06-23",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-neotec-ac-te-applicability/",
    "pages": 26,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.95,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Applies existing IETF YANG models for Attachment Circuits and Traffic Engineering to dynamic AI model placement at edge sites. Evaluates model applicability for AI inference use cases with specific network performance requirements.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of existing YANG models to AI placement, practical approach to leveraging current standards",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed technical approach with concrete YANG model applications and gap analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on applying existing YANG models to AI placement scenarios",
    "momentum_note": "Specific technical approach with practical implementation path",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for operators needing to integrate AI services with existing network management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-han-anima-ai-asa",
    "title": "Considerations of AI-powered Autonomic Service Agent Communication",
    "date": "2026-01-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-han-anima-ai-asa/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.95,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes the impact of enhancing ANIMA's Autonomic Service Agents with AI/LLM capabilities, focusing on communication protocol considerations. Explores how AI-powered ASAs could elevate network management intelligence.",
    "novelty_note": "First to systematically consider AI/LLM integration with ANIMA ASA architecture",
    "maturity_note": "Early analysis phase with conceptual considerations rather than concrete solutions",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on AI-enhanced autonomic service agents",
    "momentum_note": "High relevance to current AI networking trends and ANIMA evolution",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses AI-powered autonomous network operations and agent communication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liao-aipref-autoctl-core",
    "title": "Protocol for Automation Control",
    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liao-aipref-autoctl-core/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.95,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines core machine-readable protocol for server-side automation permissions targeting AI-driven web automation. Builds on RFC9309 with file formats, HTTP method restrictions, and purpose requirements.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses emerging AI automation control needs with structured protocol approach",
    "maturity_note": "Core specification appears reasonably complete with clear scope and structure",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with RFC9309 and AI preference space but defines distinct core protocol",
    "momentum_note": "Recent timestamp and companion extension draft suggest strong momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant core protocol for managing AI-driven automation interactions",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ainp-protocol",
    "title": "AI-Native Network Protocol (AINP) for Semantic Agent Communication",
    "date": "2025-11-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ainp-protocol/",
    "pages": 17,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.95,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines semantic communication protocol for AI agents using intent-based routing and negotiation. Replaces location-based networking with capability-based agent discovery.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel semantic routing and intent exchange paradigm for AI agents",
    "maturity_note": "Early version 0.1 specification with only 17 pages of detail",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to AI agent communication protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission without clear working group adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses core AI agent networking and communication needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lake-authz",
    "title": "Lightweight Authorization using Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (ELA)",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lake-authz/",
    "pages": 44,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies lightweight authorization using EDHOC for zero-touch device onboarding. Enables secure enrollment of new devices in constrained networks using manufacturer-installed trust anchors.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of EDHOC for zero-touch onboarding scenarios",
    "maturity_note": "Substantial 48-page specification with detailed authorization procedures",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with other EDHOC drafts but focuses on specific authorization use case",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum driven by IoT device deployment needs",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for automated device provisioning and IoT security",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-ace-coap-est-oscore",
    "title": "Protecting EST Payloads with OSCORE",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ace-coap-est-oscore/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies carrying EST certificate provisioning over CoAP using OSCORE protection instead of DTLS. Builds on EST-coaps but uses OSCORE and EDHOC for constrained environments.",
    "novelty_note": "Significant adaptation of EST for constrained IoT environments",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed IETF working group draft with comprehensive specification",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing EST and CoAP security work",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum as official IETF working group item",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for IoT certificate management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhang-rtgwg-multicast-requirements-gaps-aidc",
    "title": "Requirements and Gap Analysis of Multicast in AI Data Centers",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-rtgwg-multicast-requirements-gaps-aidc/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Identifies requirements for multicast technology in AI Data Centers to improve efficiency of point-to-multipoint data transmission during model training and inference. Analyzes gaps between current multicast capabilities and AIDC needs.",
    "novelty_note": "First systematic analysis of multicast requirements specifically for AI datacenter workloads",
    "maturity_note": "Requirements analysis is solid but gaps analysis needs validation against real deployments",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on multicast for AI datacenters",
    "momentum_note": "Strong relevance to scaling AI training and inference infrastructure",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for efficient AI model training and distributed inference at scale",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-nandakumar-agent-sd-jwt",
    "title": "SD Agent: Selective Disclosure for Agent Discovery and Identity Management",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nandakumar-agent-sd-jwt/",
    "pages": 30,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft defines SD-Card, a Selective Disclosure JWT encoding of Agent Cards that enables privacy-preserving agent discovery by allowing agents to selectively reveal capabilities, contact information, and metadata based on context while maintaining cryptographic integrity and preventing correlation across interactions.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of SD-JWT to agent discovery, addressing real privacy and security gaps in A2A protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured draft with detailed examples and processes, but appears to be early revision with some incomplete sections",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on SD-JWT (RFC) and references A2A-SPEC, but creates new application domain rather than duplicating existing work",
    "momentum_note": "Authors from Cisco with networking expertise, revision 01 indicates active development, but no clear WG adoption signals",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses critical needs for AI agent networking: privacy-preserving discovery, authentication, and selective capability disclosure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wahl-scim-agent-schema",
    "title": "System for Cross-domain Identity Management: Agentic Identity Schema",
    "date": "2026-02-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wahl-scim-agent-schema/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft extends the SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) protocol to support AI agent identities, defining a JSON schema for representing, provisioning, and managing agent identities in cloud services. It enables agents to be authenticated and authorized through existing SCIM infrastructure, including OAuth token exchange support.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of SCIM to AI agents - existing SCIM is for human users only",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured draft with detailed schema but appears truncated and is informational status",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on SCIM RFCs 7643/7644 and OAuth RFCs 6749/8693 but extends to new domain",
    "momentum_note": "Microsoft author with SCIM expertise, but unclear WG adoption status for this extension",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses critical need for agent identity management as AI systems scale",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-agent-gw",
    "title": "Agent Communication Gateway for Semantic Routing and Working Memory",
    "date": "2026-02-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-agent-gw/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes an Intelligent Agent Communication Gateway for large-scale multi-agent collaboration. Features semantic routing, working memory, and protocol adaptation mechanisms.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive gateway architecture with semantic routing and working memory is quite novel",
    "maturity_note": "Good architectural overview but implementation details appear limited",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general gateway concepts but agent-specific features are unique",
    "momentum_note": "Solid architectural vision but unclear community adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses critical infrastructure needs for multi-agent systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mp-agntcy-ads",
    "title": "Agent Directory Service",
    "date": "2026-02-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mp-agntcy-ads/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes Agent Directory Service for storing and discovering AI agent metadata based on skills. Features distributed directories with content-routing protocol for agent discovery.",
    "novelty_note": "First comprehensive directory service specifically designed for AI agent discovery",
    "maturity_note": "Good conceptual framework but needs more protocol specification detail",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to agent discovery, minimal overlap with existing directory services",
    "momentum_note": "Agent discovery is important problem but early stage development",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for AI agent ecosystem scalability and interoperability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-rosenberg-aiproto-cheq",
    "title": "CHEQ: A Protocol for Confirmation AI Agent Decisions with Human in the Loop (HITL)",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rosenberg-aiproto-cheq/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes CHEQ protocol for human confirmation of AI agent decisions before execution. Protects against AI hallucinations while preserving human privacy in tool invocation.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to human-in-the-loop validation with privacy protection",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined protocol with integration points but needs more technical detail",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on decision confirmation, complements but doesn't overlap existing protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical safety concern with clear integration path",
    "relevance_note": "Essential safety mechanism for AI agent deployment in production environments",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zeng-opsawg-llm-netconf-gap",
    "title": "Gap Analysis of Network Configuration Protocols in LLM-Driven Intent-Based Networking",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zeng-opsawg-llm-netconf-gap/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes gaps in existing network configuration protocols for LLM-driven intent-based networking. Identifies extension points for NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI, MCP, and A2A protocols.",
    "novelty_note": "First systematic analysis of protocol gaps for LLM-driven network operations",
    "maturity_note": "Good analysis depth but early stage without concrete solutions",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on LLM-network protocol integration gaps",
    "momentum_note": "Operations working group submission with clear problem focus",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for AI-driven network management evolution",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-akhavain-moussa-ai-network",
    "title": "AI Network for Training, Inference, and Agentic Interactions",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-akhavain-moussa-ai-network/",
    "pages": 37,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes Data and Agent Aware-Inference and Training Network (DA-ITN) architecture. Comprehensive multi-plane network design for AI training, inference, and agent interactions.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel unified architecture specifically designed for AI network requirements",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed 37-page specification but very early draft stage",
    "overlap_note": "Limited overlap with existing networking protocols, AI-focused approach",
    "momentum_note": "Substantial technical content suggests serious effort, needs community validation",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses core AI networking infrastructure needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-rosenberg-aiproto-a2t",
    "title": "AI Agent to Tool (A2T) Protocol",
    "date": "2025-11-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rosenberg-aiproto-a2t/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines Agent-to-Tool (A2T) protocol for integrating third-party APIs into AI agent operations. Provides enumeration and invocation APIs to reduce integration complexity for enterprise AI agents.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel standardization of AI agent-tool integration with focus on enterprise API consumption",
    "maturity_note": "Solid conceptual foundation but needs more implementation details and real-world validation",
    "overlap_note": "Some conceptual overlap with API gateway patterns but unique AI agent focus",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses clear enterprise need with potential for industry adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to AI agent ecosystem development and enterprise integration challenges",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-berlinai-vera",
    "title": "VERA: Verifiable Enforcement for Runtime Agents",
    "date": "2026-02-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-berlinai-vera/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces VERA, a zero-trust architecture for AI agent security with five enforcement pillars and cryptographic proof-based autonomy. Provides structured threat model and security properties for runtime agent verification.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive zero-trust approach to AI agent security is quite novel",
    "maturity_note": "Good architectural framework but needs more implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Some conceptual overlap with agent identity/auth but unique approach",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical security concerns with structured approach",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to AI agent deployment security concerns",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-josefsson-chempat",
    "title": "Chempat: Generic Instantiated PQ/T Hybrid Key Encapsulation Mechanisms",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-josefsson-chempat/",
    "pages": 20,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.9,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Generic framework for Post-Quantum/Traditional hybrid key encapsulation mechanisms. Provides concrete instantiated algorithms combining classical and quantum-resistant cryptographic methods.",
    "novelty_note": "High novelty in providing generic combiner construct for PQ/T hybrid KEMs",
    "maturity_note": "Individual draft with solid technical content but less institutional backing",
    "overlap_note": "Relatively unique approach to hybrid PQ cryptography, low overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Individual effort with uncertain implementation momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for quantum-resistant cryptography transition",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-cui-ai-agent-discovery-invocation",
    "title": "AI Agent Discovery and Invocation Protocol",
    "date": "2026-02-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cui-ai-agent-discovery-invocation/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes standardized protocol for AI agent discovery and invocation with common metadata format and RESTful interface. Includes intent-based agent selection extension.",
    "novelty_note": "Standard approach to common problem with useful intent-based extension",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed specification with clear interfaces and security considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with draft-liang-agentdns on agent discovery functionality",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses immediate interoperability needs with practical approach",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant - core requirement for multi-agent system deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ravikiran-clawdentity-protocol",
    "title": "Clawdentity: Cryptographic Identity and Trust Protocol for AI Agent Communication",
    "date": "2026-02-21",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ravikiran-clawdentity-protocol/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies Clawdentity protocol for cryptographic identity and trust in AI agent communication. Provides Ed25519 identity, registry credentials, pairing ceremonies, and authenticated relay transport.",
    "novelty_note": "Solid but incremental approach to agent identity using established cryptographic primitives",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive protocol specification with detailed security considerations and implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with general agent identity concepts but distinct in bilateral trust approach",
    "momentum_note": "Strong technical foundation and addresses fundamental need for agent-to-agent trust",
    "relevance_note": "Essential infrastructure for secure agent communication and identity verification",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-pan-tsvwg-pie",
    "title": "PIE: A Lightweight Control Scheme To Address the Bufferbloat Problem",
    "date": "2024-09-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pan-tsvwg-pie/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents PIE queue management algorithm to address bufferbloat by controlling queueing latency. Lightweight design suitable for hardware and software implementation without per-packet timestamps.",
    "novelty_note": "Well-developed AQM algorithm with novel proportional-integral approach",
    "maturity_note": "Mature work with simulation, theoretical analysis, and Linux testbed validation",
    "overlap_note": "Competes with other AQM schemes like CoDel but has distinct approach",
    "momentum_note": "Strong technical foundation and validation, addresses real network problems",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for AI applications requiring low latency, but general networking improvement",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-klrc-aiagent-auth",
    "title": "AI Agent Authentication and Authorization",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-klrc-aiagent-auth/",
    "pages": 26,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes authentication and authorization framework for AI agents using existing standards like WIMSE and OAuth 2.0. Focuses on applying current protocols rather than creating new ones.",
    "novelty_note": "Practical approach leveraging existing standards, though AI agent auth is increasingly studied",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed framework building on established protocols with clear implementation path",
    "overlap_note": "Builds heavily on WIMSE and OAuth but applies them to new AI agent context",
    "momentum_note": "Strong foundation in existing IETF work with clear industry need",
    "relevance_note": "Critical need as AI agents proliferate and require secure authentication mechanisms",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jurkovikj-httpapi-agentic-state",
    "title": "HTTP Profile for Synchronized Resource State (Agentic State Transfer)",
    "date": "2025-12-10",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jurkovikj-httpapi-agentic-state/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "A2A protocols",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines Agentic State Transfer (AST) HTTP profile for managing canonical resource state across multiple synchronized representations. Uses semantic validators and optimistic concurrency control for atomic agent mutations.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to HTTP resource state synchronization across representations for agent environments",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive technical specification with clear semantic model and implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on multi-representation state synchronization for agents",
    "momentum_note": "Technical complexity may slow adoption but addresses important consistency problems",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for agent-driven web interactions and preventing race conditions",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tejido-swp-core",
    "title": "SlimWire Protocol (SWP) Core: Binary Framing and Envelope Substrate",
    "date": "2026-02-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tejido-swp-core/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies SlimWire Protocol Core, a binary framing layer for agent/tool messaging with profile-based extensibility. Provides transport-independent message boundaries and envelope encoding with security bindings.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel binary framing approach optimized for agent messaging with strong conformance model",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed technical specification with conformance testing and security considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Unique binary protocol approach, minimal overlap with other agent communication protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Technical merit is high but adoption may be limited by binary format complexity",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses real need for efficient agent messaging but may face adoption challenges",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-bradleylundberg-cfrg-arkg",
    "title": "The Asynchronous Remote Key Generation (ARKG) algorithm",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bradleylundberg-cfrg-arkg/",
    "pages": 47,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines Asynchronous Remote Key Generation algorithm enabling delegation of public key generation without private key access. Supports pseudonymous keys, enhanced forward secrecy, and paired device authentication scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel cryptographic primitive for remote key generation with multiple practical applications",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive specification with abstract algorithm, concrete instantiations, and formal treatment",
    "overlap_note": "Addresses unique cryptographic capability not covered by existing key generation standards",
    "momentum_note": "Solid cryptographic foundation with clear applications but may need broader adoption drivers",
    "relevance_note": "Strong relevance for agent privacy, forward secrecy, and distributed authentication scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tsyrulnikov-rats-attested-inference-receipt",
    "title": "Attested Inference Receipt (AIR): A COSE/CWT Profile for Confidential AI Inference",
    "date": "2026-03-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tsyrulnikov-rats-attested-inference-receipt/",
    "pages": 28,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines Attested Inference Receipt (AIR) using COSE/CWT to create verifiable receipts for confidential AI inference events in TEEs. Binds model identity, input/output hashes, and platform attestation into signed artifacts for audit and compliance.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of existing COSE/CWT standards to AI inference attestation with specific TEE platform support",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured technical specification with clear scope and concrete platform implementations",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general attestation work but specific to AI inference use cases",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses growing need for AI transparency but limited to specific TEE environments",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for confidential AI and regulatory compliance requirements",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-templin-intarea-aero2",
    "title": "Automatic Extended Route Optimization (AERO)",
    "date": "2024-04-04",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-intarea-aero2/",
    "pages": 113,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies AERO service for IP internetworking over overlay multilink networks using IPv6 ND for control messaging. Comprehensive solution for mobility, multicast, and route optimization across diverse transport scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel integration of IPv6 ND with overlay multilink networks for comprehensive mobility solution",
    "maturity_note": "Very detailed technical specification with 113 pages of comprehensive protocols and procedures",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with mobility protocols but unique approach and comprehensive scope",
    "momentum_note": "Substantial individual effort, unclear broader community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for mobility and multi-transport scenarios, addresses real operational needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-dtn-dtnma",
    "title": "DTN Management Architecture",
    "date": "2024-11-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dtn-dtnma/",
    "pages": 59,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines management architecture for Delay-Tolerant Networks operating in challenged environments with long delays and frequent disruptions. Emphasizes asynchronous transport and autonomous local control.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to network management for extremely challenging network conditions",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 59-page specification with detailed architecture and technical depth",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on DTN management with little overlap in existing network management approaches",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft with specialized but dedicated community support",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for specialized environments like space networks but limited general applicability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yang-dynamic-ecn-threshold",
    "title": "Coupling ECN Marking Thresholds with Dynamic Buffer Allocation",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yang-dynamic-ecn-threshold/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes coupling ECN marking thresholds with dynamic buffer allocation to prevent misalignment issues. Provides deterministic algorithm to maintain adaptive relationship between marking thresholds and buffer capacity.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to ECN threshold management addressing real operational problems",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined problem with concrete solution and reference algorithm",
    "overlap_note": "Limited overlap with existing ECN work, addresses specific dynamic buffer scenario",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses practical network operations issue but narrow deployment scope",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for modern network equipment with dynamic buffer management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ramadan-mboned-sonar",
    "title": "SONAR: Statistical Observation Network for Attestation and Reach",
    "date": "2025-11-04",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ramadan-mboned-sonar/",
    "pages": 22,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.85,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies a protocol for verifiable multicast delivery using cryptoeconomic accountability and statistical sampling. Combines IP multicast efficiency with blockchain-based attestation and VRF sampling for coverage verification.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel combination of multicast, cryptoeconomics, zkSNARKs, and statistical verification",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed protocol specification with concrete parameters and implementation considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach combining multicast with cryptoeconomic verification mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "Complex protocol with blockchain dependencies may limit adoption momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for verifiable content distribution but narrow use case scope",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-emu-hybrid-pqc-eapaka",
    "title": "Enhancing Security in EAP-AKA' with Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography",
    "date": "2026-02-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emu-hybrid-pqc-eapaka/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.8,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Enhances EAP-AKA' with post-quantum cryptography to address quantum computing threats. Uses hybrid PQ/T algorithms to achieve quantum-safe authentication.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of hybrid post-quantum crypto to cellular authentication protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Short specification building on recent EAP-AKA' FS work, early stage development",
    "overlap_note": "Specific to EAP-AKA' with some overlap to general PQC standardization efforts",
    "momentum_note": "Timely post-quantum crypto adoption in critical mobile authentication",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for future-proofing mobile network security",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-luan-rtgwg-sdaf",
    "title": "Symmetry-Driven Asynchronous Forwarding with Fast Reroute for LEO Satellite Networks (SDAF)",
    "date": "2026-02-25",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-luan-rtgwg-sdaf/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.8,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes symmetry-driven forwarding mechanism for LEO satellite networks to avoid routing loops and black holes during topology changes. Leverages toroidal topology structure for faster convergence without protocol modifications.",
    "novelty_note": "Creative use of satellite constellation symmetry for autonomous forwarding decisions",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed technical approach but needs validation in real satellite environments",
    "overlap_note": "Addresses unique challenges of satellite networks with novel approach",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum due to growing LEO constellation deployments",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for autonomous satellite operations and space-based networking",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ar-emu-pqc-eapaka",
    "title": "Enhancing Security in EAP-AKA' with Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography",
    "date": "2025-03-17",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ar-emu-pqc-eapaka/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.8,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Enhances EAP-AKA' forward secrecy with post-quantum/traditional hybrid cryptography to protect against future quantum computer threats. Builds on RFC9678 by replacing ECDHE with quantum-safe algorithms.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of PQ/T hybrid approach to EAP-AKA', addressing specific quantum threats to cellular authentication",
    "maturity_note": "Early draft with clear problem statement but implementation details need refinement",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general PQ hybrid work but specific to EAP-AKA' protocol",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum given urgent need for post-quantum migration in cellular networks",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for mobile network security and quantum readiness",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-core-oscore-edhoc",
    "title": "Using Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) with the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) and Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE)",
    "date": "2024-11-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-core-oscore-edhoc/",
    "pages": 33,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.8,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies how to run EDHOC over CoAP to establish OSCORE security contexts for constrained environments. Includes optimizations to combine EDHOC execution with first OSCORE transaction.",
    "novelty_note": "Good integration work with useful optimization for reducing round trips",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed specification with comprehensive coverage of integration scenarios",
    "overlap_note": "Unique integration of EDHOC with CoAP/OSCORE",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum in IoT security standardization",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for IoT and constrained device security",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chen-ai-agent-auth-new-requirements",
    "title": "New requirements for Authentication and Authorization in the AI Agents era",
    "date": "2026-01-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-ai-agent-auth-new-requirements/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.8,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Identifies new authentication and authorization requirements for AI agents that go beyond traditional human-user frameworks. Focuses on managing dynamic agent behavior rather than static identity verification.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel focus on dynamic behavior-based auth vs static identity, addressing fundamental paradigm shift for AI agents",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage requirements document, lacks concrete solutions or implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on AI agent auth requirements, no direct overlap with other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses critical security gap but needs broader community input and technical solutions",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant as AI agents proliferate and existing auth frameworks prove inadequate",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-sogomonian-ai-uri-scheme",
    "title": "AI URI Scheme",
    "date": "2025-10-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sogomonian-ai-uri-scheme/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.8,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines experimental AI URI scheme for dedicated AI resource access. Enables native connectivity for autonomous systems while supporting human interoperability via HTTPS gateways.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to AI resource addressing with dual autonomous/human access paradigm",
    "maturity_note": "Very brief specification lacking detailed syntax, semantics, and security considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to AI resource identification, no direct overlaps found",
    "momentum_note": "AI infrastructure gaining attention but URI schemes are niche area",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for AI agent discovery, registration, and autonomous system connectivity",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-tls-deprecate-obsolete-kex",
    "title": "Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in (D)TLS 1.2",
    "date": "2026-01-23",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-deprecate-obsolete-kex/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.75,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Deprecates obsolete key exchange methods in TLS 1.2 including finite field DH and RSA. Updates multiple RFCs to change cipher suite recommendations to MUST NOT or SHOULD NOT.",
    "novelty_note": "Standard security maintenance work deprecating known weak algorithms",
    "maturity_note": "Thorough specification updating many RFCs with clear deprecation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Focused TLS 1.2 security update with unique scope",
    "momentum_note": "Important security maintenance from established IETF TLS working group",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for maintaining TLS security posture across internet infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-srijal-agents-policy",
    "title": "AGENTS.TXT: Strict Policy File for Automated Clients",
    "date": "2025-10-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-srijal-agents-policy/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies AGENTS.TXT protocol as strict plaintext policy file for automated clients, bots, and crawlers. Includes hash verification and mandatory restrictive behavior for malformed files.",
    "novelty_note": "Builds on robots.txt concept with stricter verification and failure handling for AI agents",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined protocol specification with clear directives and error handling",
    "overlap_note": "Similar to robots.txt but distinct focus on modern automated agents",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses immediate practical need as AI agents proliferate across web services",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant given current explosion of AI agents and need for access control",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-abbey-scim-agent-extension",
    "title": "SCIM Agents and Agentic Applications Extension",
    "date": "2025-10-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-abbey-scim-agent-extension/",
    "pages": 27,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.75,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends SCIM 2.0 protocol to manage AI agents and agentic applications across domains. Adds new schemas and resource types for agent identity management using existing SCIM infrastructure.",
    "novelty_note": "First to systematically extend SCIM for agent identity management",
    "maturity_note": "Builds on mature SCIM foundation but agent-specific extensions are early",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach using SCIM for agent identity management",
    "momentum_note": "Leverages established SCIM ecosystem but agent management is emerging",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses critical need for agent identity management as agentic systems proliferate",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhao-nmop-network-management-agent",
    "title": "AI based Network Management Agent(NMA): Concepts and Architecture",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhao-nmop-network-management-agent/",
    "pages": 24,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.75,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines AI-driven Network Management Agent concept for Level 4 autonomous networks. Specifies integration with existing SDN controllers for intent-based reasoning and autonomous operations.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel conceptual framework bridging AI agents with network autonomy levels",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage architectural proposal with limited implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing autonomous network and SDN work",
    "momentum_note": "Strong industry push toward network automation and AI integration",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as networks move toward autonomous operations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-eckert-anima-acp-free-ani",
    "title": "ACP free \"Automation Network Infrastructure\" for simple in-network automation (aNI)",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eckert-anima-acp-free-ani/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.75,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes lightweight variation of Autonomic Networking Infrastructure without expensive ACP implementation. Uses existing ANI certificates and protocols with application-level software agents.",
    "novelty_note": "Creative simplification of complex ANI architecture while retaining core automation benefits",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed technical approach with clear trade-offs and implementation considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Builds heavily on existing ANIMA work but with significant architectural changes",
    "momentum_note": "Strong technical foundation but depends on broader ANIMA adoption momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for making autonomic networking more implementable and practical",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-individual-inip",
    "title": "In-Network Inference Protocol",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-individual-inip/",
    "pages": 17,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.75,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies a protocol for performing lightweight ML inference directly in network devices like switches and SmartNICs. Uses centralized control plane for model management and distributed data plane for inference execution.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel integration of inference capabilities into network data plane devices",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed protocol specification with packet formats and architecture, but implementation complexity unclear",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to in-network computing for inference",
    "momentum_note": "Edge computing trend supports concept but network device inference is still emerging",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for reducing latency and improving efficiency in AI applications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-aipref-attach",
    "title": "Associating AI Usage Preferences with Content in HTTP",
    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-aipref-attach/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies how AI usage preferences can be signaled during HTTP content acquisition. Updates RFC 9309 to include usage preference mechanisms for automated systems.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel HTTP integration but builds on existing RFC 9309 foundation",
    "maturity_note": "Mature IETF working group draft with clear technical specification",
    "overlap_note": "Complements vocab draft but focuses on HTTP transport mechanism",
    "momentum_note": "Active IETF working group effort with recent updates",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for practical deployment of AI preference signaling",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-farzdusa-aipref-enduser",
    "title": "AI Preferences Signaling: End User Impact",
    "date": "2025-11-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farzdusa-aipref-enduser/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.75,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Documents potential end user impacts of AI preference signaling standards across technological, legal, and ethical dimensions. Suggests principles for working group consideration in standardization.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel focus on end user impact analysis for AI preference standards",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed analysis but primarily guidance document rather than technical spec",
    "overlap_note": "Unique perspective focused on user impact rather than technical mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "Recent individual submission addressing active working group concerns",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for ensuring standards consider broader stakeholder impacts",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-lkspa-wimse-verifiable-geo-fence",
    "title": "Privacy Preserving Verifiable Geofencing with Residency Proofs for Sovereign Workloads",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lkspa-wimse-verifiable-geo-fence/",
    "pages": 22,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.75,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines hardware-rooted cryptographic framework for verifying workload location without compromising privacy using zero-knowledge proofs. Establishes silicon-to-workload chain of trust for sovereign computing environments.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel combination of hardware attestation, geofencing, and ZK proofs",
    "maturity_note": "Complex early-stage proposal requiring significant development",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with attestation work but unique privacy approach",
    "momentum_note": "Growing interest in sovereign computing and privacy-preserving location",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for secure AI workload deployment and compliance",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-scim-agent-extension",
    "title": "SCIM Agents and Agentic Applications Extension",
    "date": "2025-10-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-scim-agent-extension/",
    "pages": 27,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends SCIM 2.0 specification to manage agents and agentic applications across domains. Builds on existing identity management infrastructure to reduce protocol proliferation.",
    "novelty_note": "Practical extension of established standard rather than novel approach",
    "maturity_note": "Builds on mature SCIM foundation with detailed schema extensions",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach using identity management for agent management",
    "momentum_note": "Leverages existing SCIM ecosystem and addresses practical deployment needs",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for enterprise agent identity and lifecycle management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zheng-agent-identity-management",
    "title": "Agent Identity Managenment",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zheng-agent-identity-management/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines comprehensive agent identity management for Internet of Agents systems. Covers agent registration, identifier structure, and identity management functions through agent gateways.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive identity management framework",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured with detailed requirements",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with other identity drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Active development in agent identity space",
    "relevance_note": "Critical foundational work for agent ecosystems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yuan-rtgwg-traffic-agent-usecase",
    "title": "Use cases of the AI Network Traffic Optimization Agent",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yuan-rtgwg-traffic-agent-usecase/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents use cases for AI agents optimizing network traffic through dynamic resource adjustment. Details applications in tunnel adjustment, traffic steering, and network slice management.",
    "novelty_note": "Specific application of AI to traffic optimization",
    "maturity_note": "Well-detailed use cases with clear scenarios",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on traffic optimization use cases",
    "momentum_note": "Strong industry interest in AI network optimization",
    "relevance_note": "Valuable for understanding practical applications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-rosenberg-aiproto-framework",
    "title": "Framework, Use Cases and Requirements for AI Agent Protocols",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rosenberg-aiproto-framework/",
    "pages": 26,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Provides framework and requirements for AI agent protocols on the Internet. Surveys existing approaches like MCP and A2A to guide IETF standardization efforts.",
    "novelty_note": "Primarily synthesizes existing work rather than proposing new technical solutions",
    "maturity_note": "Well-researched framework document with comprehensive use cases and requirements analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with general AI protocol discussions but serves as foundational framework",
    "momentum_note": "Critical for establishing IETF direction in AI agent standardization",
    "relevance_note": "Essential framework document for the emerging field of AI agent protocols",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-an-nmrg-i2icf-cits",
    "title": "Interface to In-Network Computing Functions for Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems",
    "date": "2026-02-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-an-nmrg-i2icf-cits/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines framework for orchestrating In-Network Computing Functions in Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems. Incorporates Agent-to-Agent communication for multi-domain V2X scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Combines in-network computing with A2A protocols specifically for transportation systems",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive framework but requires extensive validation in real C-ITS deployments",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with general V2X and edge computing work but A2A integration is newer",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum in autonomous vehicles and smart transportation infrastructure",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for emerging connected vehicle ecosystems and smart cities",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-melnikov-sasl2",
    "title": "Extensible Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)",
    "date": "2025-06-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-melnikov-sasl2/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates SASL framework to support modern authentication requirements including multi-factor authentication and password change requests. Maintains backward compatibility while extending capabilities.",
    "novelty_note": "Evolutionary update to established protocol with modern auth extensions",
    "maturity_note": "Mature specification from experienced author updating well-understood protocol",
    "overlap_note": "Updates existing SASL but adds distinct new capabilities",
    "momentum_note": "Strong IETF momentum with established author and clear use cases",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for agent authentication and multi-factor security requirements",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lamps-attestation-freshness",
    "title": "Nonce-based Freshness for Remote Attestation in Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) for the Certification Management Protocol (CMP), for Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST), and for Certificate Management over CMS (CMC)",
    "date": "2025-10-19",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-attestation-freshness/",
    "pages": 20,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Outlines how nonces are supplied to end entities by RA/CA for inclusion in attestation evidence within Certificate Signing Requests. Covers implementation across CMP, EST, and CMC protocols to demonstrate evidence freshness.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses important freshness problem in attestation but uses established nonce-based approach",
    "maturity_note": "Mature specification from established working group with comprehensive protocol coverage",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing certificate management protocols but adds attestation-specific mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum from LAMPS working group and growing attestation requirements",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for trusted computing and device attestation scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lake-ra",
    "title": "Remote attestation over EDHOC",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lake-ra/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies remote attestation procedures integrated with EDHOC lightweight key exchange protocol. Enables verification of device/system integrity during authentication based on RATS architecture.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty in combining attestation with EDHOC, though both concepts exist separately",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured IETF working group draft with clear technical approach",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general attestation and EDHOC work but specific combination is relatively unique",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group backing suggests good momentum and implementation interest",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for IoT security and zero-trust architectures requiring device attestation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lamps-rfc7030-csrattrs",
    "title": "Clarification and enhancement of RFC7030 CSR Attributes definition",
    "date": "2026-01-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-rfc7030-csrattrs/",
    "pages": 25,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates RFC7030 to clarify CSR Attributes Response encoding and adds template-based approach for EST servers. Resolves implementation challenges and confusion in the existing EST specification.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement to existing EST protocol with template approach being moderately novel",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed specification addressing real implementation issues with clear encoding rules",
    "overlap_note": "Specific update to EST protocol with limited overlap to other current drafts",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft addressing documented interoperability problems",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for PKI deployments and certificate enrollment infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-suit-firmware-encryption",
    "title": "Encrypted Payloads in SUIT Manifests",
    "date": "2025-12-08",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-suit-firmware-encryption/",
    "pages": 55,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies encryption techniques for firmware and software payloads in SUIT manifests. Uses ES-DH and AES-KW for key agreement with symmetric encryption for payload protection.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies established crypto techniques to SUIT manifest context, moderately novel integration",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 55-page specification with detailed technical approaches",
    "overlap_note": "Specific to SUIT manifest encryption with minimal overlap to other efforts",
    "momentum_note": "Active IETF working group addressing IoT security needs",
    "relevance_note": "Important for IoT device security and firmware update protection",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lamps-est-renewal-info",
    "title": "Certificate Renewal Recommendations for Enrollment over Secure Transport",
    "date": "2026-02-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-est-renewal-info/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends EST protocol to provide server-side recommendations for certificate renewal timing. Addresses the issue of overly early renewal attempts as certificate lifetimes shorten.",
    "novelty_note": "Modest extension to existing EST protocol, addresses practical timing optimization",
    "maturity_note": "Well-scoped problem with clear solution, builds on established EST standard",
    "overlap_note": "Specific EST extension with minimal overlap with other certificate management work",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft addressing real deployment needs as cert lifetimes decrease",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for PKI deployments, especially with trend toward shorter certificate lifetimes",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-netconf-configuration-tracing",
    "title": "External Trace ID for Configuration Tracing",
    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netconf-configuration-tracing/",
    "pages": 19,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies a NETCONF mechanism to map configuration modifications to their originating NMS using external trace IDs. Includes a YANG module to facilitate troubleshooting and post-mortem analysis in autonomous networks.",
    "novelty_note": "Builds on existing NETCONF but adds useful tracing capabilities for multi-NMS environments",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured 19-page specification with concrete YANG module, appears implementation-ready",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general network management drafts but tracing focus is relatively unique",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft addressing real operational needs in complex networks",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for autonomous networks and multi-controller environments becoming common",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-howe-sipcore-mcp-extension",
    "title": "SIP Extension for Model Context Protocol (MCP)",
    "date": "2025-09-29",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-howe-sipcore-mcp-extension/",
    "pages": 50,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines SIP extension to carry Model Context Protocol with new option-tags, headers, and media types. Enables MCP payload exchange during SIP sessions.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel integration of MCP with SIP protocol, unique approach among the drafts",
    "maturity_note": "High maturity with detailed protocol specifications and substantial length",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach focusing on SIP integration rather than network management",
    "momentum_note": "Solid momentum with comprehensive specification and established SIP community",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant to AI agents in communication systems but different domain",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-websec-mime-sniff",
    "title": "Media Type Sniffing",
    "date": "2024-09-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-websec-mime-sniff/",
    "pages": 24,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes algorithm for determining effective media type of HTTP responses. Balances security and compatibility when Content-Type headers are incorrect.",
    "novelty_note": "Formalizes existing browser behavior into standard algorithm",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed specification addressing real interoperability issues",
    "overlap_note": "Related to HTTP and web security standards",
    "momentum_note": "Active IETF working group with recent updates",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for web security and interoperability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-song-lake-ra",
    "title": "Remote attestation over EDHOC",
    "date": "2025-01-13",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-song-lake-ra/",
    "pages": 26,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies how to perform remote attestation as part of the EDHOC key exchange protocol. Based on the RATS architecture for lightweight authenticated key exchange.",
    "novelty_note": "Good novelty in integrating remote attestation with EDHOC protocol",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed 26-page specification building on established protocols",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with general remote attestation work but specific EDHOC integration",
    "momentum_note": "Recent draft with active development, builds on mature EDHOC work",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for IoT and constrained device security requiring attestation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-gaikwad-south-authorization",
    "title": "SOUTH: Stochastic Authorization for Agent and Service Requests",
    "date": "2025-11-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gaikwad-south-authorization/",
    "pages": 44,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Authorization protocol supporting probabilistic decisions for agents and services. Enables uncertainty and contextual factors in access control decisions.",
    "novelty_note": "Stochastic authorization decisions are novel for network protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed 44-page specification with HTTP binding",
    "overlap_note": "Extends existing auth patterns but adds unique probabilistic element",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission, unclear adoption trajectory",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses agent authorization needs with uncertainty handling",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-sogomonian-aiip-architecture",
    "title": "Architecture for the Artificial Intelligence Internet Protocol (AIIP)",
    "date": "2025-12-15",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sogomonian-aiip-architecture/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.7,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines architectural model for Artificial Intelligence Internet Protocol (AIIP) enabling stateless, verifiable invocation of autonomous systems. Uses resolve-invoke-receipt pattern with cryptographic execution receipts and optional attestation evidence.",
    "novelty_note": "Very high novelty - completely new protocol architecture for AI system invocation",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage architectural definition, lacks implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach - no similar AI-specific internet protocol architectures",
    "momentum_note": "Low momentum - very early stage, unclear adoption path",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance as AI systems become more distributed and autonomous",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-oauth-ai-agents-on-behalf-of-user",
    "title": "OAuth 2.0 Extension: On-Behalf-Of User Authorization for AI Agents",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-oauth-ai-agents-on-behalf-of-user/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft extends OAuth 2.0 to enable AI agents to securely obtain access tokens for acting on behalf of users. It introduces new parameters (requested_actor, actor_token) to the authorization flow to ensure explicit user consent and proper authentication of AI agents during delegation.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of OAuth 2.0 specifically for AI agent delegation with new parameters and consent mechanisms",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured draft with detailed protocol steps and security considerations, but appears to be early-stage work from non-IETF authors",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on OAuth 2.0 RFC6749 and relates to Token Exchange RFC8693, but addresses gaps in existing specifications for AI agent scenarios",
    "momentum_note": "Authors from WSO2 but no clear IETF working group adoption, second revision suggests some development but limited institutional backing",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses a critical need for secure AI agent authorization in distributed systems, highly relevant to AI agent networking",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ni-a2a-ai-agent-security-requirements",
    "title": "Security Requirements for AI Agents",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ni-a2a-ai-agent-security-requirements/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Establishes security requirements for AI agents across their operational lifecycle. Covers provisioning, registration, cross-domain interconnection, and access control security aspects.",
    "novelty_note": "Systematic security requirements approach",
    "maturity_note": "Good coverage of security lifecycle stages",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with identity and auth drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Strong interest in AI agent security",
    "relevance_note": "Essential for secure agent deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-rosenberg-aiproto",
    "title": "Normalized API for AI Agents Calling Tools (N-ACT)",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rosenberg-aiproto/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines N-ACT protocol for AI agents to discover and invoke third-party tools and APIs. Focuses on enterprise agents with enumeration and invocation capabilities.",
    "novelty_note": "Standardizes common pattern of AI tool integration but builds on existing OpenAI specifications",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive specification with clear API definitions and enterprise focus",
    "overlap_note": "Identical to draft-rosenberg-aiproto-nact - appears to be duplicate submission",
    "momentum_note": "Strong enterprise use case and addresses major AI integration pain point",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for current AI agent development and enterprise adoption",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-rosenberg-aiproto-nact",
    "title": "Normalized API for AI Agents Calling Tools (N-ACT)",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rosenberg-aiproto-nact/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines N-ACT protocol for AI agents to discover and invoke third-party tools and APIs. Focuses on enterprise agents with enumeration and invocation capabilities.",
    "novelty_note": "Standardizes common pattern of AI tool integration but builds on existing OpenAI specifications",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive specification with clear API definitions and enterprise focus",
    "overlap_note": "Identical to draft-rosenberg-aiproto - appears to be duplicate submission",
    "momentum_note": "Strong enterprise use case and addresses major AI integration pain point",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant for current AI agent development and enterprise adoption",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-pocero-authkem-edhoc",
    "title": "KEM-based Authentication for EDHOC",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pocero-authkem-edhoc/",
    "pages": 42,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends EDHOC with KEM-based authentication for post-quantum resistance. Enables signature-free quantum-resistant authentication using mechanisms like ML-KEM.",
    "novelty_note": "High novelty in signature-free post-quantum authentication for EDHOC",
    "maturity_note": "Individual draft with detailed technical approach but limited institutional review",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with EDHOC and PQC work but specific approach is fairly unique",
    "momentum_note": "Individual effort with uncertain adoption prospects",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for post-quantum cryptography and lightweight authentication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zyyhl-agent-networks-framework",
    "title": "Framework for AI Agent Networks",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zyyhl-agent-networks-framework/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines comprehensive framework for AI agent networks based on Agent Network Protocol (ANP). Provides basic functions needed for AI agent communication within trusted domains.",
    "novelty_note": "Substantial framework for agent-to-agent networking with dedicated protocol",
    "maturity_note": "Most detailed at 21 pages with concrete protocol framework, but references incomplete ANP spec",
    "overlap_note": "Relatively unique approach to agent networking protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Comprehensive framework could attract interest but depends on ANP protocol development",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as agent-to-agent communication becomes critical infrastructure need",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-kotecha-agentic-dispute-protocol",
    "title": "Agentic Dispute Protocol",
    "date": "2025-10-14",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kotecha-agentic-dispute-protocol/",
    "pages": 26,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a protocol for autonomous agents to file and resolve disputes through structured automated processes. Includes evidence submission, cryptographic proofs, and multiple resolution frameworks.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel - first formal protocol for automated agent dispute resolution",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive but complex specification needing real-world validation",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on dispute resolution - no overlap with other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses future need but may be premature for current agent capabilities",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for advanced agent interactions but not immediate priority",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mao-rtgwg-agent-comm-protocol-gap-analysis",
    "title": "Gap Analysis for the Cross-device Communication Protocol for AI Agents in Network Devices",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mao-rtgwg-agent-comm-protocol-gap-analysis/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes gaps in existing networking and AI protocols for cross-device communication between AI agents on network devices. Evaluates classical networking protocols and popular AI agent protocols for suitability.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel gap analysis approach for agent communication",
    "maturity_note": "Good analytical foundation, references framework draft",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on protocol gap analysis",
    "momentum_note": "Part of broader cross-device communication work",
    "relevance_note": "Important for understanding protocol requirements",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zlgsgl-rtgwg-agents-networking-framework",
    "title": "Agents Networking Framework for Enterprise and Broadband",
    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zlgsgl-rtgwg-agents-networking-framework/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces a comprehensive agents networking framework for enterprise and broadband environments. Defines core components and interactions for agent-based networking systems.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel framework approach for agent networking architecture",
    "maturity_note": "More developed with defined components and interactions",
    "overlap_note": "Some conceptual overlap with SDN frameworks",
    "momentum_note": "Good momentum with detailed framework definition",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for enterprise networking evolution",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-han-rtgwg-agent-gateway-intercomm-framework",
    "title": "Agent Gateway Intercommunication Framework",
    "date": "2026-01-30",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-han-rtgwg-agent-gateway-intercomm-framework/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines framework for intercommunication between Agent Gateways in Agent Internet ecosystem. Addresses data synchronization, protocol compatibility, and security for cross-domain agent collaboration.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel hierarchical framework for agent gateway intercommunication",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured framework with clear components but implementation details may need refinement",
    "overlap_note": "Specialized focus on gateway interoperability reduces overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Technical depth and clear problem focus suggest moderate momentum potential",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for scalable agent infrastructure and cross-domain collaboration",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yang-ioa-protocol",
    "title": "Internet of Agents Protocol (IoA Protocol) for Heterogeneous Agent Collaboration",
    "date": "2025-07-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yang-ioa-protocol/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines the Internet of Agents Protocol for distributed collaboration among heterogeneous AI agents. Provides layered architecture for dynamic team formation and task coordination across diverse agent types.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel protocol specifically for multi-agent collaboration with focus on heterogeneous systems",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured but lacks implementation details and security considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general agent communication but focused on collaboration aspects",
    "momentum_note": "Targets emerging 6G scenarios which may drive adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as multi-agent systems become more prevalent",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-rosenberg-oauth-aauth",
    "title": "AAuth - Agentic Authorization OAuth 2.1 Extension",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rosenberg-oauth-aauth/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth 2.1 for AI agents operating through PSTN/SMS channels to obtain access tokens using PII collected via natural language. Addresses hallucination-based impersonation risks.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel OAuth extension specifically designed for AI agent authentication challenges",
    "maturity_note": "Moderate maturity at 10 pages with specific technical approach",
    "overlap_note": "Extends existing OAuth but addresses unique AI agent use cases",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses practical AI deployment needs but faces significant security challenges",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for AI agent deployment in practical scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-rosenberg-cheq",
    "title": "CHEQ: A Protocol for Confirmation AI Agent Decisions with Human in the Loop (HITL)",
    "date": "2025-07-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rosenberg-cheq/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes CHEQ protocol for human-in-the-loop confirmation of AI agent decisions before execution. Uses signed objects to prevent AI hallucinations from causing unwanted actions while protecting human privacy.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to AI safety through structured confirmation protocol with privacy protection",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined protocol but lacks implementation details and security analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general AI safety approaches but protocol specifics are unique",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses important AI safety concerns but limited community involvement evident",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as AI agents become more autonomous and safety becomes critical",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-bandaid",
    "title": "Brokered Agent Network for DNS AI Discovery",
    "date": "2025-10-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-bandaid/",
    "pages": 37,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes using DNS with SVCB records to enable AI agent discovery and capability advertisement. Leverages existing DNS infrastructure including DNSSEC and DANE for secure agent-to-agent discovery.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of DNS service discovery specifically for AI agents with structured metadata exchange",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured with clear DNS integration but limited implementation details and security analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Complementary to other AI agent protocols, focuses specifically on discovery rather than communication",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses clear need for agent discovery but uncertain industry adoption of DNS-based approach",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for scalable AI agent ecosystems, leverages proven DNS infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zm-rtgwg-mcp-troubleshooting",
    "title": "Using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Intent-Based Network Troubleshooting Automation",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zm-rtgwg-mcp-troubleshooting/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes using Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable LLM-based automated network troubleshooting. Maps MCP roles to network management domain with devices as servers and controllers as clients.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of MCP to network management with device-to-device collaboration extension",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured but early stage, needs implementation validation",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general network automation but MCP approach is distinct",
    "momentum_note": "Growing interest in AI-driven network operations but MCP adoption uncertain",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as networks become more complex and require intelligent automation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-semantic-routing-architecture",
    "title": "Semantic Routing Architecture for AI Agents Communication",
    "date": "2025-11-04",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-semantic-routing-architecture/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces semantic routing architecture using intent vectors and trust scores for AI agent communication. Moves beyond traditional IP routing to application-layer semantic decisions.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel semantic-driven routing paradigm for AI agent networks",
    "maturity_note": "Clear architecture description but implementation details needed",
    "overlap_note": "Distinct from traditional routing protocols, AI agent specific",
    "momentum_note": "Solid technical foundation, needs broader community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses key challenge of intelligent agent communication routing",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-vandoulas-aidp",
    "title": "Agent Interaction & Delegation Protocol (AIDP)",
    "date": "2026-01-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vandoulas-aidp/",
    "pages": 34,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a comprehensive control-plane protocol for secure agent interactions with delegation, authority enforcement, and cross-domain interoperability. Addresses core infrastructure needs for multi-agent systems with auditable execution binding.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel integration of intent expression, capability delegation, and execution result binding in single protocol",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured but lacks implementation details and security analysis depth",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general agent communication but unique delegation focus",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses clear industry need but no implementation indicators mentioned",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as foundational infrastructure for enterprise agent deployments",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-messous-eat-ai",
    "title": "Entity Attestation Token (EAT) Profile for Autonomous AI Agents",
    "date": "2026-02-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-messous-eat-ai/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines an Entity Attestation Token profile for remote attestation of autonomous AI agents, specifying claims for model integrity, training data provenance, and inference policies. Extends EAT for AI-specific attestation needs within the IETF RATS architecture.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of EAT to AI agent attestation with specific claims for model parameters and training data provenance",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonable technical depth but could benefit from more implementation details and security analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general RATS work but AI-specific attestation claims are relatively unique",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses emerging need for AI agent trust but limited demonstrated industry adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for trustworthy AI deployment and aligns with growing focus on AI safety and verification",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-cui-nmrg-auto-test",
    "title": "Framework and Automation Levels for AI-Assisted Network Protocol Testing",
    "date": "2026-02-22",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cui-nmrg-auto-test/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Framework for AI-assisted network protocol testing using LLMs and automated test generation. Defines automation maturity levels from manual (Level 0) to fully autonomous testing (Level 5).",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of LLMs to protocol testing with structured automation maturity model",
    "maturity_note": "Good framework structure with clear levels but needs more implementation detail",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general testing automation but AI-specific focus is relatively unique",
    "momentum_note": "Research group draft in active AI networking area with practical applications",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to AI-assisted network operations and protocol development",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-reilly-sentinel-protocol",
    "title": "Reilly Sentinel Protocol (RSP): Blockchain-Anchored Integrity for AI Datasets, Training, Fine-Tuning, and Inference Provenance",
    "date": "2025-09-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-reilly-sentinel-protocol/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines blockchain-anchored integrity protocol for AI lifecycle provenance using Sentinel Evidence Packages. Provides tamper-evident audit trails for datasets, training, and inference.",
    "novelty_note": "Creative combination of blockchain timestamping with AI provenance tracking",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined protocol structure but needs implementation validation",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on blockchain-anchored AI provenance",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses regulatory compliance needs but blockchain dependency may limit adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for regulated AI deployments and safety-critical applications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-altanai-aipref-realtime-protocol-bindings",
    "title": "AI Preferences for Real-Time Protocol Bindings",
    "date": "2026-02-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-altanai-aipref-realtime-protocol-bindings/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines how AI preference expressions are bound to real-time protocols like SIP and SDP. Specifies headers and attributes for endpoints and AI assistants to negotiate AI processing requirements for session metadata and media.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel integration of AI preferences into established real-time communication protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured with concrete protocol bindings but early stage implementation",
    "overlap_note": "Limited overlap, focuses specifically on real-time protocol bindings for AI preferences",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses emerging need for AI integration in telecom but niche application area",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as AI assistants become integrated into communication systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-agent-protocol-over-moq",
    "title": "Agent Protocol over MoQ",
    "date": "2026-03-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-agent-protocol-over-moq/",
    "pages": 22,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies agent-to-agent communication framework over Media over QUIC protocol. Provides structured, low-latency communication with session management and data fragmentation.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of MoQ for agent communication with comprehensive framework",
    "maturity_note": "Well-detailed at 22 pages but still emerging technology",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on MoQ but provides unique agent communication layer",
    "momentum_note": "Good technical depth suggests active development",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for emerging agent communication needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chen-oauth-scope-agent-extensions",
    "title": "Structured and Constraint Extensions for OAuth Scopes",
    "date": "2026-03-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-oauth-scope-agent-extensions/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth 2.0 scope parameter with structured syntax for fine-grained authorization of AI agent capabilities. Addresses permission management for modular agent components.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel structured approach to OAuth scopes for agent authorization",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed specification with detailed syntax and use cases",
    "overlap_note": "Extends OAuth but provides unique agent-specific capabilities",
    "momentum_note": "Detailed specification suggests good development momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for agent security and authorization needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-dunbar-agent-attachment",
    "title": "Agent Attachment Protocol",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-agent-attachment/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes protocol for autonomous agents to securely attach to overlay network infrastructure. Covers identity validation, capability exchange, and session establishment.",
    "novelty_note": "Network attachment specifically designed for autonomous agents is a new concept",
    "maturity_note": "Clear protocol definition but needs more detail on security and scalability aspects",
    "overlap_note": "Some similarity to general attachment protocols but specifically designed for agents",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses fundamental need but limited visible industry adoption yet",
    "relevance_note": "Essential capability as agents become more autonomous and network-distributed",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-vwrap-authentication",
    "title": "VWRAP Trust Model and User Authentication",
    "date": "2024-09-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-vwrap-authentication/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Establishes authentication for Virtual World Region Agent Protocol. Verifies user credentials before granting control over user's agent and digital assets.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of authentication to virtual world agents",
    "maturity_note": "Solid specification but limited to virtual world domain",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general authentication protocols",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group but specialized application area",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for virtual world and metaverse applications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tiloca-lake-app-profiles",
    "title": "Coordinating the Use of Application Profiles for Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)",
    "date": "2024-12-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tiloca-lake-app-profiles/",
    "pages": 32,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.65,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines coordination mechanisms for EDHOC application profiles including discovery, canonical representation, and well-known profiles. Addresses out-of-band parameter agreement challenges.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to profile coordination and discovery for EDHOC deployments",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive specification but implementation experience limited",
    "overlap_note": "Complements other EDHOC work without significant duplication",
    "momentum_note": "Recent activity and detailed specification suggests moderate momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses important operational deployment challenges for EDHOC",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid",
    "title": "DNS for AI Discovery",
    "date": "2026-02-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid/",
    "pages": 24,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.6,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Uses existing DNS infrastructure for AI agent discovery through structured namespace and metadata exchange. Enables organizations to publish agent capabilities in their DNS domains.",
    "novelty_note": "Leverages proven DNS infrastructure for new AI agent discovery use case",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured specification building on solid DNS foundation with clear scope",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with IAIP on agent discovery but uses different DNS-based approach",
    "momentum_note": "High adoption potential due to DNS ubiquity and no protocol changes required",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for scalable agent discovery and interoperability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-eggert-mailmaint-uaautoconf",
    "title": "Automatic Configuration of Email, Calendar, and Contact Server Settings",
    "date": "2025-09-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eggert-mailmaint-uaautoconf/",
    "pages": 41,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.6,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies automatic configuration mechanism for email, calendar, and contact applications. Enables service providers to publish standardized configuration data for simplified client setup.",
    "novelty_note": "Builds on existing autoconfig concepts but provides comprehensive multi-service approach",
    "maturity_note": "Substantial 41-page document indicates thorough development and consideration of use cases",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing email autoconfig mechanisms and service discovery protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Strong author reputation and comprehensive scope suggests good momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for simplifying user experience and reducing configuration errors",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-ace-edhoc-oscore-profile",
    "title": "Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) and Object Security for Constrained Environments (OSCORE) Profile for Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE)",
    "date": "2026-03-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ace-edhoc-oscore-profile/",
    "pages": 89,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.6,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines ACE framework profile using EDHOC for mutual authentication and OSCORE for secure communication. Enables authorization delegation from constrained devices to more capable hosts.",
    "novelty_note": "Reasonable novelty in combining existing protocols for constrained environment authorization",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 91-page specification from established IETF working group",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with existing ACE, EDHOC, and OSCORE specifications",
    "momentum_note": "Strong IETF working group support and addresses real IoT deployment needs",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for IoT and constrained device security architectures",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-xsaopig-nsttlp-traffic-labeling",
    "title": "Network Service Type-Aware Traffic Labeling Protocol (NST-TLP)",
    "date": "2026-01-29",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xsaopig-nsttlp-traffic-labeling/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.6,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies protocol for embedding service type identifiers in network packets to enable intelligent traffic recognition and policy-based forwarding. Supports various applications from VR to IoT with standardized service labels.",
    "novelty_note": "Builds on existing traffic classification concepts but provides standardized labeling approach",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined protocol with clear packet header specifications and implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing QoS and traffic classification mechanisms but adds AI-awareness",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses practical network management needs with implementable solution",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for AI workload management and network optimization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-anima-brski-ae",
    "title": "BRSKI-AE: Alternative Enrollment Protocols in BRSKI",
    "date": "2025-03-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-brski-ae/",
    "pages": 43,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.6,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends BRSKI protocol to support alternative certificate enrollment mechanisms beyond EST, particularly CMP. Enables more flexible automated device onboarding in enterprise networks.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental enhancement to existing BRSKI with alternative enrollment options",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive specification with clear architecture updates to established protocol",
    "overlap_note": "Builds directly on BRSKI with some overlap to certificate enrollment protocols",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group item with strong industry backing for device onboarding",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for automated network device deployment and IoT scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-gaikwad-aps-profile",
    "title": "Agent Persistent State Profile",
    "date": "2025-11-30",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gaikwad-aps-profile/",
    "pages": 22,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.6,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Storage service profile for agent persistent state including embeddings, preferences, and audit logs. Addresses compliance and performance needs for AI agent storage.",
    "novelty_note": "First standardization attempt for AI agent-specific storage requirements",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed experimental specification with Kubernetes integration",
    "overlap_note": "Novel focus on agent-specific storage class requirements",
    "momentum_note": "Individual experimental draft seeking feedback",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses critical infrastructure needs for persistent AI agents",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-moreno-lisp-uberlay",
    "title": "Uberlay Interconnection of Multiple LISP overlays",
    "date": "2025-10-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-moreno-lisp-uberlay/",
    "pages": 20,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.6,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes using LISP to interconnect multiple independent network overlays through a transit overlay called 'uberlay'. Enables interworking of different overlay approaches while maintaining autonomy and failure survivability across domains.",
    "novelty_note": "High novelty - novel approach to multi-overlay interconnection using LISP",
    "maturity_note": "Mature specification with detailed mechanisms and procedures",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with LISP work but focuses on multi-overlay interconnection",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum within LISP community",
    "relevance_note": "Moderate relevance for complex overlay network deployments",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-cats-idn",
    "title": "A Framework of Intelligence Delivery Network (IDN) for Deep Learning Inference",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-cats-idn/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.6,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces Intelligence Delivery Network (IDN) framework for deploying ML models across distributed servers for latency-aware inference. Focuses on architectural framework and vocabulary without protocol details.",
    "novelty_note": "Extends CDN concepts to AI inference but builds on established distributed computing ideas",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonable length with architectural framework but explicitly defers protocol details",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with ODSI on distributed inference but different focus areas",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate length and framework approach suggests some development investment",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses critical need for distributed AI inference infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-oauth-a2a-profile",
    "title": "Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Profile for OAuth Transaction Tokens",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-oauth-a2a-profile/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.6,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies OAuth Transaction Token profile for Agent-to-Agent communication. Embeds call chain context to maintain agent identity and authorization across distributed agent workloads.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of OAuth Transaction Tokens specifically for agent-to-agent scenarios",
    "maturity_note": "Very brief draft at 5 pages, needs substantial development and detail",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on existing OAuth work but applies it to new agent communication domain",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses emerging need for agent authentication but needs broader community input",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for AI agent ecosystems requiring secure inter-agent communication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-templin-6man-aero3",
    "title": "Automatic Extended Route Optimization (AERO)",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-6man-aero3/",
    "pages": 99,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.6,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies automatic extended route optimization for IP internetworking over overlay multilink networks. Targets air/land/sea/space mobile applications with IPv6 neighbor discovery control plane.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive approach to multilink overlay networking with novel OMNI interface concept",
    "maturity_note": "Very detailed 99-page specification suggesting significant development effort and maturity",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing mobility and overlay networking solutions but offers integrated approach",
    "momentum_note": "Long-running work by established author but limited broader community engagement visible",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for emerging mobile and space networking requirements",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-dmsc-acps-arc",
    "title": "Agent Collaboration Protocols Architecture for Internet of Agents",
    "date": "2026-01-29",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-dmsc-acps-arc/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes Agent Collaboration Protocols architecture for Internet of Agents, covering agent lifecycle from access to collaboration. Includes trusted registration, authentication, discovery, interaction, and monitoring components.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive agent collaboration architecture but builds on established distributed systems concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Good architectural overview but needs more detailed protocol specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with draft-li-dmsc-mcps-agw and similar multi-agent collaboration efforts",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum as part of broader Internet of Agents standardization push",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for future large-scale agent deployments and IoA infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lake-edhoc-psk",
    "title": "EDHOC Authenticated with Pre-Shared Keys (PSK)",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lake-edhoc-psk/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies pre-shared key authentication method for EDHOC key exchange protocol. Enhances efficiency while providing mutual authentication and quantum resistance.",
    "novelty_note": "PSK method extension to existing EDHOC protocol",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 31-page specification with detailed security considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Extends EDHOC but PSK approach is relatively unique",
    "momentum_note": "Steady progress in LAKE working group",
    "relevance_note": "Important for IoT and constrained device authentication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-pbs-sidrops-roaanycast",
    "title": "Route Origin Authorization (ROA) Governance for Anycasted Services with Unique Origin ASNs",
    "date": "2025-09-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pbs-sidrops-roaanycast/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines best practices for managing Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) for globally anycasted services where each anycast node uses a unique origin ASN. Addresses technical risks and mitigation strategies for RPKI operations in anycast deployments.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty - addresses specific gap in ROA management for unique-ASN anycast deployments",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed with concrete best practices and risk mitigation strategies",
    "overlap_note": "Limited overlap with existing RPKI/ROA work, focuses on specific anycast scenario",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum - addresses operational need in RPKI community",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for network operators using anycast with RPKI validation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-vaughan-aipref-vocab",
    "title": "Vocabulary for Expressing Content Preferences for AI Training",
    "date": "2025-07-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vaughan-aipref-vocab/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes vocabulary for rightsholders to express content preferences for AI training use through metadata or content-delivery protocols. Provides structured approach to permissions, usage scope, and data retention preferences.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses emerging need for AI training consent mechanisms with structured vocabulary approach",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonably detailed vocabulary specification but needs broader ecosystem adoption",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with related aipref drafts addressing similar content preference concerns",
    "momentum_note": "Strong relevance to current AI training and copyright concerns",
    "relevance_note": "Extremely relevant to current debates over AI training data rights and consent",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-allman-tcp-early-rexmt",
    "title": "Early Retransmit for TCP and SCTP",
    "date": "2024-12-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-allman-tcp-early-rexmt/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes Early Retransmit mechanism for TCP and SCTP to recover lost segments when congestion window is small. Reduces duplicate ACKs needed for fast retransmission to avoid lengthy timeouts.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement to existing TCP recovery mechanisms",
    "maturity_note": "Well-established problem space with clear technical approach",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with other TCP optimization drafts but specific focus",
    "momentum_note": "TCP improvements have steady interest but not high priority",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses real performance issues in low-bandwidth scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wu-sidr-aspa-validation-signaling",
    "title": "BGP AS_PATH Validation State Extended Community",
    "date": "2024-09-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wu-sidr-aspa-validation-signaling/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines BGP extended community to carry AS_PATH validation state based on ASPA. Enables IBGP speakers to use validation state in local policy decisions.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental but useful extension to existing ASPA validation mechanisms",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined technical solution building on established BGP mechanisms",
    "overlap_note": "Complements existing ASPA work without significant overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Steady progress in BGP security space with industry interest",
    "relevance_note": "Important for BGP security and route validation in internet infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-agent-context-protocol",
    "title": "Agent Context Protocol",
    "date": "2026-01-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-agent-context-protocol/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes a standard protocol for AI agents to communicate context information to each other, independent of the underlying communication protocol. It defines semantic standards for agent context messages to improve interoperability and enable more accurate responses from called agents.",
    "novelty_note": "First standardization attempt for agent context communication semantics",
    "maturity_note": "Very early draft (version 00), incomplete with truncated content and minimal technical detail",
    "overlap_note": "Limited overlap with existing networking protocols, focuses on AI-specific context semantics",
    "momentum_note": "Single author from industry, no WG adoption evident, first version with no revision history",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses core need for standardized AI agent interoperability and context sharing",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liang-agentdns",
    "title": "AgentDNS: A Root Domain Naming System for LLM Agents",
    "date": "2025-10-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liang-agentdns/",
    "pages": 22,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes a DNS-inspired naming and service discovery system for LLM agents to enable autonomous discovery and invocation of third-party services. Addresses interoperability and trust management in agent collaboration ecosystems.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of DNS concepts to agent ecosystems with semantic discovery",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured but lacks implementation details and evaluation",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with draft-cui-ai-agent-discovery-invocation on agent discovery",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses clear need but no evidence of industry adoption yet",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for emerging agent interoperability challenges",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-song-oauth-ai-agent-collaborate-authz",
    "title": "OAuth2.0 Extension for Multi-AI Agent Collaboration",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-song-oauth-ai-agent-collaborate-authz/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes OAuth 2.0 extension for multi-AI agent collaboration with applier-on-behalf-of authorization. Simplifies authorization for coordinated agent workflows.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to multi-agent authorization coordination",
    "maturity_note": "Clear technical approach with specific OAuth extension",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general OAuth delegation patterns",
    "momentum_note": "Good momentum addressing practical multi-agent needs",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for multi-agent system deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mozley-aidiscovery",
    "title": "AI Agent Discovery (AID) Problem Statement",
    "date": "2025-10-15",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mozley-aidiscovery/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines requirements and considerations for AI agent-to-agent discovery mechanisms. Addresses the fundamental problem of how AI agents locate and identify each other in distributed systems.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel focus on agent discovery protocols, addressing emerging need as AI agents proliferate",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage problem statement, only 8 pages, lacks concrete protocol specification",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on AI agent discovery, no significant overlap with existing drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses timely need but limited concrete progress shown",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as AI agents become more common and need discovery mechanisms",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ye-problems-and-requirements-of-dns-for-ioa",
    "title": "Problems Statement and Requirements Analysis of DNS for Internet of Agents (IoA)",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ye-problems-and-requirements-of-dns-for-ioa/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes DNS challenges for Internet of Agents scenarios and identifies technical requirements. Explores how DNS must evolve to support agent collaboration in AI-driven environments.",
    "novelty_note": "First systematic analysis of DNS requirements specifically for Internet of Agents",
    "maturity_note": "Problem statement stage with limited concrete solutions or protocol specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on DNS for agent networks, no direct overlap with existing work",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses important infrastructure need but early stage with limited community traction",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for agent discovery and naming in large-scale AI systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wang-hjs-accountability",
    "title": "HJS: An Accountability Layer for AI Agents",
    "date": "2026-02-21",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-hjs-accountability/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines HJS accountability layer for AI agents using blockchain-anchored timestamps to create immutable responsibility chains. Provides primitives for judgment, delegation, termination, and verification with court-admissible evidence.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel blockchain integration for AI agent accountability with legal framework consideration",
    "maturity_note": "Brief specification lacking implementation details and integration examples",
    "overlap_note": "Unique blockchain-based accountability approach, no direct overlap with other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Important problem space but may face adoption challenges due to blockchain dependency",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses critical need for AI agent accountability and legal traceability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-irtf-nmrg-llm-nm",
    "title": "A Framework for LLM-Assisted Network Management with Human-in-the-Loop",
    "date": "2025-09-14",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-nmrg-llm-nm/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines framework for collaborative network management between LLMs and human operators with human-in-the-loop oversight. Introduces telemetry modules and standardized interaction models.",
    "novelty_note": "Good integration of human oversight with LLM automation in network management",
    "maturity_note": "Moderate maturity with defined framework components and workflows",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with autonomous network operations but adds human-in-the-loop aspect",
    "momentum_note": "IRTF draft suggests research community interest but moderate momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for practical LLM deployment in network operations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zeng-mcp-network-measurement",
    "title": "MCP-based Network Measurement Framework: Using Model Context Protocol for Intelligent Network Measurement",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zeng-mcp-network-measurement/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes MCP framework for intelligent network measurement with AI assistance. Enables natural language-driven network monitoring and fault diagnosis.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of MCP to specific network measurement domain with natural language interface",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonable maturity with concrete use cases but still developing technical details",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general MCP network management but focuses on measurement",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum with focused application area and multiple related drafts by author",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for AI-assisted network operations and intelligent monitoring",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-templin-intarea-aero",
    "title": "Automatic Extended Route Optimization (AERO)",
    "date": "2024-02-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-intarea-aero/",
    "pages": 120,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.55,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies Automatic Extended Route Optimization (AERO) service for IP internetworking over Overlay Multilink Network interfaces. Supports mobility management, multicast forwarding, and route optimization for air/land/sea/space applications.",
    "novelty_note": "High novelty - comprehensive overlay networking solution with unique mobility focus",
    "maturity_note": "Complex 120-page specification may need refinement, but technically comprehensive",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with other mobility and overlay networking solutions",
    "momentum_note": "Strong technical depth but niche application areas may limit adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for next-gen mobility scenarios including IoT, aviation, and space networks",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ahn-nmrg-5g-security-i2nsf-framework",
    "title": "An Integrated Security Service System for 5G Networks using an I2NSF Framework",
    "date": "2026-02-25",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ahn-nmrg-5g-security-i2nsf-framework/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.5,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents integrated framework for automated 5G edge network security using I2NSF architecture and Intent-Based Networking. Enables high-level security intent translation into enforceable policies across network and application layers.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty - integrates existing I2NSF and IBN concepts for 5G security",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed framework with detailed architecture and policy mechanisms",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with I2NSF, IBN, and 5G security work",
    "momentum_note": "High momentum driven by 5G deployment and security automation needs",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for 5G network security and automated policy management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-httpbis-zstd-window-size",
    "title": "Window Sizing for Zstandard Content Encoding",
    "date": "2024-09-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-zstd-window-size/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.5,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates RFC8878 to make Zstandard window size limits a requirement rather than recommendation for HTTP contexts. Addresses interoperability issues caused by browser memory limitations.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental update to existing compression standard, limited novelty",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined problem with clear solution, appears ready for implementation",
    "overlap_note": "Specific update to compression standard, minimal overlap with other work",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft with recent updates, good standardization momentum",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for web performance and interoperability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jia-oauth-scope-aggregation",
    "title": "OAuth 2.0 Scope Aggregation for Multi-Step AI Agent Workflows",
    "date": "2026-02-10",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jia-oauth-scope-aggregation/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.5,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth 2.0 with scope aggregation to reduce authorization round-trips in multi-step AI agent workflows. Improves efficiency by bundling required permissions upfront.",
    "novelty_note": "Practical extension to existing OAuth for AI workflow optimization",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined problem with clear solution building on established OAuth framework",
    "overlap_note": "Extends OAuth but addresses AI-specific use case not covered elsewhere",
    "momentum_note": "Strong potential adoption given OAuth ubiquity and clear efficiency benefits",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for AI agent authorization and workflow management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-meta-layer-overview",
    "title": "The Meta-Layer: A Coordination Substrate for Presence, Annotation, and Governance on the Web",
    "date": "2025-10-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meta-layer-overview/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.5,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces Meta-layer concept as coordination substrate for presence, annotation, and governance on the web. Enables communities and agents to collaborate in shared digital spaces above content layers.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel architectural concept for web-scale coordination and governance",
    "maturity_note": "Very early conceptual stage, lacks concrete protocols or implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Unique architectural vision with no direct parallels in existing work",
    "momentum_note": "Ambitious concept but needs significant development and community building",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for agent coordination and governance but very early stage",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-emu-pqc-eapaka",
    "title": "Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (PQ KEMs) in EAP-AKA prime",
    "date": "2026-02-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emu-pqc-eapaka/",
    "pages": 20,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.5,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes enhancing EAP-AKA' Forward Secrecy with Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms to protect against future quantum computer threats. It builds on RFC9678 by replacing traditional ECDHE key exchange with quantum-resistant alternatives.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental enhancement of existing protocol with established PQ-KEM techniques",
    "maturity_note": "Draft stage with reasonable technical foundation but requires implementation validation",
    "overlap_note": "Specific application to EAP-AKA' with limited overlap in similar PQ-KEM integrations",
    "momentum_note": "High momentum due to urgent quantum threat timeline and active IETF post-quantum standardization efforts",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for securing authentication infrastructure against quantum threats",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-idr-bgp-metrics",
    "title": "BGP AS Path Metrics",
    "date": "2024-08-23",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-metrics/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.5,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes extended per-hop BGP metrics to enable common routing policies that currently require complex configurations. Supplements BGP-4 with globally significant metrics.",
    "novelty_note": "Per-hop BGP metrics provide useful extension but build incrementally on existing BGP framework",
    "maturity_note": "Technical specification appears solid but references very old BGP RFCs suggesting dated approach",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with BGP extensions but specific per-hop metrics approach is distinctive",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft with established routing community backing",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses practical operational needs for BGP policy implementation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chen-agent-decoupled-authorization-model",
    "title": "A Decoupled Authorization Model for Agent2Agent",
    "date": "2026-02-14",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-agent-decoupled-authorization-model/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes a decoupled authorization framework for AI agents that enables dynamic, intent-based permissions through Just-in-Time authorization decisions rather than static role-based access. It addresses the challenges of traditional authorization models when applied to ephemeral, autonomous AI agents by separating authorization decisions (ADP) from enforcement points (AEP).",
    "novelty_note": "Intent-based authorization for AI agents and decoupled ADP/AEP architecture is a novel approach to a real emerging problem",
    "maturity_note": "Very early draft (00) with incomplete sections, truncated content, and missing critical implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on OAuth 2.0 (RFC 6749) and traditional authorization frameworks but addresses AI-specific gaps not covered by existing work",
    "momentum_note": "No clear WG adoption indicated, early version from China Mobile authors, no revision history to assess community interest",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses critical security and authorization challenges for AI agent ecosystems, which is fundamental to safe agent deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-huang-acme-scalable-agent-enrollment",
    "title": "Extending Certificate Enrollment Protocols for Scalable Agentic AI Identity",
    "date": "2025-12-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-huang-acme-scalable-agent-enrollment/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes two scalable models for certificate enrollment of AI agents: one using Zero-Knowledge Proofs for privacy-preserving attestation, and another using trusted host environments to endorse agent certificates. It addresses the scalability bottleneck of performing full attestation validation for every agent enrollment in large-scale deployments.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of ZKP and host-based trust models to AI agent certificate enrollment, addressing specific scalability challenges not covered in existing standards",
    "maturity_note": "Early draft with incomplete specification, missing protocol details, security analysis, and implementation considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on existing SCEP/EST protocols and RATS attestation framework, but proposes new extensions rather than duplicating existing work",
    "momentum_note": "New draft (-00) from authors without clear IETF track record, submitted to RATS WG but no indication of WG adoption or review",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses core challenge of scalable identity management for AI agents, which is fundamental to secure agent deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-sml-trust",
    "title": "Trust and security considerations for Structured Email",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sml-trust/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Provides trust and security recommendations for handling structured data in email messages. Addresses security considerations for message user agents processing structured email content.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental security guidance for existing structured email approaches",
    "maturity_note": "IETF working group draft with established discussion venue and GitHub repo",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general email security but focused on structured data",
    "momentum_note": "Active IETF working group with clear development process",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for email systems but limited AI/agent focus",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhang-rvp-problem-statement",
    "title": "Problem Statements and Requirements of Real-Virtual Agent Protocol (RVP): Communication Protocol for Embodied Intelligence in Physical- Digital Continuum",
    "date": "2025-10-21",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-rvp-problem-statement/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes Real-Virtual Agent Protocol for coordinating physical entities with digital agents through unified identity management. Targets manufacturing, smart cities, and human-AI collaborative environments.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to physical-digital agent coordination with composite identity",
    "maturity_note": "Problem statement stage, lacks implementation details and deployment experience",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with IoT and agent protocols but unique physical-digital focus",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission without clear standardization momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for embodied AI and physical-digital agent coordination",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zeng-opsawg-applicability-mcp-a2a",
    "title": "When NETCONF Is Not Enough: Applicability of MCP and A2A for Advanced Network Management Scenarios",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zeng-opsawg-applicability-mcp-a2a/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes NETCONF limitations for advanced scenarios and proposes MCP and A2A protocols as complementary solutions. Provides implementation guidance and coexistence models.",
    "novelty_note": "Practical applicability analysis but builds on existing protocol concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed implementation guidance with coexistence models shows maturity",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing NETCONF extensions but unique multi-protocol approach",
    "momentum_note": "Operations working group context with practical implementation focus",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for advanced network management and agent integration",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-dmsc-mcps-agw",
    "title": "Multi-agent Collaboration Protocol Suite based on Agent Gateway",
    "date": "2026-02-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-dmsc-mcps-agw/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a protocol suite using Agent Gateways as control-plane entities for multi-agent collaboration. Enables agent registration, authentication, capability management and semantic routing while preserving P2P interactions.",
    "novelty_note": "Gateway-based architecture for agent collaboration is a solid architectural approach",
    "maturity_note": "Good architectural foundation but likely needs more protocol detail for full implementation",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with other agent collaboration drafts, particularly draft-liu-dmsc-acps-arc",
    "momentum_note": "Part of emerging multi-agent collaboration standardization efforts",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as multi-agent systems become more prevalent in distributed computing",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ar-emu-hybrid-pqc-eapaka",
    "title": "Enhancing Security in EAP-AKA' with Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography",
    "date": "2025-07-10",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ar-emu-hybrid-pqc-eapaka/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Enhances EAP-AKA' with hybrid post-quantum cryptography combining traditional and quantum-resistant algorithms. Provides quantum safety while maintaining backwards compatibility.",
    "novelty_note": "Hybrid approach offers practical transition strategy",
    "maturity_note": "Solid technical foundation but needs implementation validation",
    "overlap_note": "Direct overlap with draft-ra-emu-pqc-eapaka on same protocol",
    "momentum_note": "Growing interest in hybrid PQC approaches",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for quantum-resistant authentication evolution",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-sip-location-conveyance",
    "title": "Location Conveyance for the Session Initiation Protocol",
    "date": "2024-09-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sip-location-conveyance/",
    "pages": 46,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines SIP extension for conveying geographic location information between entities. Covers end-to-end conveyance and location-based routing decisions.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies established location concepts to SIP protocol",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 46-page specification with detailed procedures",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing location and SIP work",
    "momentum_note": "Active IETF working group draft with recent updates",
    "relevance_note": "Useful for location-aware SIP applications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yuan-rtgwg-security-agent-usecase",
    "title": "Use cases of the AI Network Security Agent",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yuan-rtgwg-security-agent-usecase/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes AI Network Security Agents for routers to provide intelligent, adaptive security capabilities beyond traditional static ACLs and signature-based detection. Outlines four key use cases including dynamic defense, ACL optimization, configuration security, and collaborative defense.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of AI agents specifically to network security with concrete use cases, though AI in security is not new",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage with high-level concepts and scenarios but lacks technical implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general AI agent networking concepts but security focus is distinctive",
    "momentum_note": "Security applications of AI agents have industry interest but this is an early contribution",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as network security increasingly needs intelligent automation and adaptive responses",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-huang-rats-agentic-eat-cap-attest",
    "title": "Capability Attestation Extensions for the Entity Attestation Token (EAT) in Agentic AI Systems",
    "date": "2025-12-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-huang-rats-agentic-eat-cap-attest/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends Entity Attestation Token (EAT) to support capability attestation for agentic AI systems. Enables secure assertion of agent functional, reasoning, and operational capabilities.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of EAT to agentic systems with new capability-specific claims",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft at only 6 pages with basic specification",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with agent identity work but unique attestation focus",
    "momentum_note": "Part of emerging RATS working group interest in AI systems",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for trustworthy AI deployment and verification",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jiang-seat-dynamic-attestation",
    "title": "Dynamic Attestation for AI Agent Communication",
    "date": "2025-11-13",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jiang-seat-dynamic-attestation/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines dynamic attestation mechanisms for AI agents to convey runtime posture changes during long-lived TLS sessions. Enables relying parties to make authorization decisions based on current agent state including platform TCB, manifest, and runtime context.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of remote attestation to AI agent runtime verification with dynamic updates",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage use case description, lacks detailed protocol specification",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general remote attestation work but AI agent focus is distinct",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses real need for trusted AI agent communication but limited detail",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for secure AI agent deployments and trust establishment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-romanchuk-normative-admissibility",
    "title": "Normative Admissibility Framework for Agent Speech Acts",
    "date": "2026-01-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-romanchuk-normative-admissibility/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Establishes a framework for evaluating whether autonomous agent speech acts are admissible based on modality and grounding state. Focuses on deterministic evaluation without requiring semantic truth verification.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel approach to agent communication validation using speech act theory and formal logic",
    "maturity_note": "Theoretical framework is well-developed but practical implementation details are unclear",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach not seen in other agent protocol drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Specialized academic approach may have limited industry adoption momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for agent safety and verification but may be too theoretical for immediate practical use",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-kartha-grd",
    "title": "Geospatial Resource Discovery (GRD): Problem Statement and Conceptual Architecture",
    "date": "2026-01-19",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kartha-grd/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines architectural framework for discovering network resources based on physical location and context rather than predefined identifiers. Targets AR, autonomous systems, and spatial computing applications that need location-aware resource discovery.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to resource discovery using geospatial context instead of traditional naming",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage architectural document with no protocol or implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Limited overlap with existing DNS/naming standards, addresses different problem space",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses emerging need for spatial computing but still conceptual",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for autonomous systems and AR applications requiring location-based discovery",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-du-catalist-routing-considerations",
    "title": "Routing Considerations in Agentic Network",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-du-catalist-routing-considerations/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes routing considerations for AI agent-to-agent communication in overlay networks. Focuses on cross-domain scenarios where agents with different skills need to interconnect.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel focus on agent-specific routing requirements in overlay networks",
    "maturity_note": "Brief 8-page document lacks detailed technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with other agentic network drafts but unique routing focus",
    "momentum_note": "Part of emerging agentic networking trend but limited scope",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as AI agents proliferate and need interconnection",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tan-ccamp-uonaco-problem-statement",
    "title": "Unified Optical Networks and AI Computing Orchestration (UONACO) Problem Statement, Use Cases and Requirements",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tan-ccamp-uonaco-problem-statement/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines requirements for unified orchestration between optical networks and AI computing to enable coordinated resource provisioning. Addresses the problem of isolated control planes preventing optimal AI workload performance across distributed data centers.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to joint optical-compute orchestration for AI workloads with bidirectional awareness",
    "maturity_note": "Problem statement stage with basic requirements definition, lacks detailed protocol specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general network-compute coordination but specific to optical networks and AI",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses growing need for AI infrastructure coordination but early stage draft",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to emerging AI infrastructure needs and distributed training requirements",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-cats-aisemantic-contract",
    "title": "Semantic-Driven Traffic Shaping Contract for AI Networks",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-cats-aisemantic-contract/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a contract mechanism allowing AI applications to communicate semantic information about their traffic to networks. Networks use this information to provide differentiated resource allocation and forwarding for AI workloads.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to expose AI traffic semantics to network layer for optimized handling",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage work with basic contract definition, lacks detailed implementation specifics",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general traffic engineering but unique AI semantic focus",
    "momentum_note": "Growing interest in AI-aware networking but still niche area",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as AI workloads become dominant in data centers",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-kartha-internet20-ainative",
    "title": "Internet 2.0: An Intent-Aware, AI-Native Extension of the Web",
    "date": "2025-11-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kartha-internet20-ainative/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.45,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes Internet 2.0 architecture with AI models as first-class network entities, including HTTP+AI extensions, Model Resolution Network (MRN), and AI-aware browsers. Aims to transform the web from document retrieval to intent-based AI interaction.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel concept of treating AI models as network primitives with dedicated discovery and routing mechanisms",
    "maturity_note": "Highly ambitious architectural proposal lacking implementation details and concrete specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with model serving concepts but unique in comprehensive internet architecture redesign",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses emerging need for AI-native networking but may be too ambitious for near-term adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to future AI infrastructure needs and network evolution",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yan-a2a-device-agent-applicability",
    "title": "Applicability of A2A Protocol for Network Management Agents",
    "date": "2026-02-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yan-a2a-device-agent-applicability/",
    "pages": 19,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.4,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Discusses applying Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol to network management for communication between Controller and Device Agents. Explores integration with existing protocols like NETCONF and RESTCONF.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies A2A concepts to network management domain with device agents",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed at 19 pages with detailed workflows and scenarios",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with existing network management and A2A work",
    "momentum_note": "Strong alignment with network automation trends and SDN evolution",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant to autonomous network operations and management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lamps-private-key-stmt-attr",
    "title": "An Attribute for Statement of Possession of a Private Key",
    "date": "2025-10-13",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-private-key-stmt-attr/",
    "pages": 19,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.4,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines X.509 attribute for private key possession statements as alternative to cryptographic proof of possession. Enables certificate subjects to provide signed statements for CA verification.",
    "novelty_note": "Alternative approach to traditional proof-of-possession mechanisms",
    "maturity_note": "Mature 19-page specification with detailed attribute definitions",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to private key possession verification",
    "momentum_note": "Standard LAMPS working group development",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for flexible certificate enrollment scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yue-moq-transporting-sensing-data",
    "title": "Challenges in Transporting Sensing Data with Media Over QUIC",
    "date": "2025-10-19",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yue-moq-transporting-sensing-data/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.4,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes using Media Over QUIC (MOQ) to transport large-scale, real-time sensing data in 6G networks. Focuses on autonomous driving, smart cities, and industrial IoT scenarios with requirements for low latency and high throughput.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty - applies existing MOQ to new 6G sensing data use cases",
    "maturity_note": "Moderate maturity with identified challenges but limited concrete solutions",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with MOQ and 6G transport work",
    "momentum_note": "High momentum due to 6G development and IoT growth",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for emerging 6G and autonomous system deployments",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ramakrishna-satp-views-addresses",
    "title": "Views and View Addresses for Secure Asset Transfer",
    "date": "2025-09-15",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ramakrishna-satp-views-addresses/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.4,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines view and addressing mechanisms for secure asset transfer between DLT systems. Enables cross-system asset interoperability with access control and verification.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel abstraction for cross-DLT asset views with comprehensive security model",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed technical specification but complex system requiring extensive validation",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general interoperability work but DLT focus is distinct",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses growing need for blockchain interoperability",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for AI agents handling digital assets but narrow application domain",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jimenez-tbd-robotstxt-update",
    "title": "Robots.txt update proposal",
    "date": "2025-05-10",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jimenez-tbd-robotstxt-update/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.4,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes updates to robots.txt standard to handle AI-specific crawlers with new syntax for user-agent identification. Aims to distinguish between training and inference activities for better web content access management.",
    "novelty_note": "Evolutionary update to existing standard addressing new AI crawler use cases",
    "maturity_note": "Brief document with limited technical depth, appears early stage",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on robots.txt for AI applications",
    "momentum_note": "High relevance due to widespread AI training concerns and web scraping issues",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant to current debates about AI training data and web content rights",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zw-rtgwg-mcp-network-mgmt",
    "title": "Model Context Protocol (MCP) Extensions for Network Equipment Management",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zw-rtgwg-mcp-network-mgmt/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies MCP extensions for network equipment management with routers/switches as MCP servers. Defines capability tokens, tools, and error codes without breaking existing MCP.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental novelty in extending MCP for network equipment with backward compatibility",
    "maturity_note": "Good maturity with concrete technical specifications and implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with draft-zeng-mcp-network-mgmt, nearly identical abstracts",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum with detailed technical approach and routing working group focus",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for network equipment AI integration and management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-thomson-aipref-sup",
    "title": "Short Usage Preference Strings for Automated Processing",
    "date": "2025-08-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thomson-aipref-sup/",
    "pages": 17,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines simple format for content usage preference expressions with HTTP header field. Updates RFC9309 to provide standardized preference conveyance mechanism.",
    "novelty_note": "Simple but practical approach to preference expression with HTTP integration",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed specification with detailed format definition and HTTP integration",
    "overlap_note": "High overlap with RFC9309 updates and AI preference signaling mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "Recent timestamp and detailed specification suggest active development",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for standardizing AI content usage preference communication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mandel-lamps-rfc5274bis",
    "title": "Certificate Management Messages over CMS (CMC): Compliance Requirements",
    "date": "2024-09-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mandel-lamps-rfc5274bis/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates compliance requirements for Certificate Management Messages over CMS protocol. Obsoletes previous RFCs 5274 and 6402 with current best practices.",
    "novelty_note": "Maintenance update rather than novel contribution",
    "maturity_note": "Mature protocol area with clear requirements",
    "overlap_note": "Direct replacement for obsoleted RFCs",
    "momentum_note": "PKI standards have consistent but modest momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Important for PKI interoperability and compliance",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tiloca-lake-edhoc-implem-cons",
    "title": "Implementation Considerations for Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)",
    "date": "2024-02-13",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tiloca-lake-edhoc-implem-cons/",
    "pages": 25,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Provides implementation guidance for EDHOC authenticated key exchange protocol. Offers practical considerations for deploying Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE.",
    "novelty_note": "Implementation guide rather than protocol innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Based on established EDHOC protocol specification",
    "overlap_note": "Complementary to main EDHOC specification",
    "momentum_note": "IoT security protocols have steady interest",
    "relevance_note": "Important for correct EDHOC deployment in IoT scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-stephan-ai-agent-6g",
    "title": "AI Agent protocols for 6G systems",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-stephan-ai-agent-6g/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Examines AI agent communication protocols specifically for 6G systems based on 3GPP requirements. Extrapolates protocol requirements from established 3GPP use cases.",
    "novelty_note": "Builds on existing 3GPP work with moderate protocol innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonable detail with clear 3GPP foundation and protocol focus",
    "overlap_note": "Unique 6G focus with limited overlap to other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum with established 3GPP backing",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance to emerging 6G standards and agent protocols",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zeng-nmrg-mcp-usecases-requirements",
    "title": "MCP for Network Management: Problem Statement, Use Cases, and Requirements",
    "date": "2026-02-14",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zeng-nmrg-mcp-usecases-requirements/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents problem statement for integrating Model Context Protocol into network management for AI agents. Outlines use cases for troubleshooting, security, and optimization with functional and security requirements.",
    "novelty_note": "Applying MCP to network management is a reasonable extension",
    "maturity_note": "Good requirements document but needs follow-up protocol work",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with network automation but MCP focus is distinctive",
    "momentum_note": "NMRG venue and structured approach suggests research community interest",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant to AI-driven network operations trend",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhu-anima-service-intent",
    "title": "Definition of Service Intent in Autonomic Networks",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhu-anima-service-intent/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a structured semantic model for expressing service-level objectives and constraints across network, compute, and storage resources in autonomic networks. Extends ANIMA Intent to support emerging AI inference services with proper identification, scope, versioning, and lifecycle management.",
    "novelty_note": "Builds on existing ANIMA Intent but adds service-level abstractions for multi-resource scenarios",
    "maturity_note": "Provides semantic model and format specification but likely needs implementation validation",
    "overlap_note": "Related to ANIMA work but focuses on service-level rather than connection-centric intent",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses growing need for AI service orchestration in autonomic networks",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for AI service deployment and autonomous network management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-han-rtgwg-codeployment-pfc-fgfc",
    "title": "Use cases and Requirement for Flow Control Collaboration Across DCNs and WAN",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-han-rtgwg-codeployment-pfc-fgfc/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes use cases for coordinating flow control between data center PFC and WAN fine-grained flow control. Aims to achieve end-to-end lossless transmission across network domains.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses gap in cross-domain flow control coordination, building on established PFC mechanisms",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured requirements document but needs technical solution specification",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on existing PFC work but addresses novel cross-domain coordination problem",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses industry need for DC-WAN integration, likely to gain data center community interest",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant to current data center and cloud networking evolution",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-error-reporting",
    "title": "DNS Error Reporting",
    "date": "2024-04-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-error-reporting/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a lightweight mechanism for DNS resolvers to report resolution/validation errors to authoritative servers. Uses extended DNS errors and encodes reports in QNAMEs for automatic signaling.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to DNS error feedback using QNAME encoding for reporting",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonably mature with clear protocol design, builds on established DNS error extensions",
    "overlap_note": "Related to DNS monitoring but uses unique QNAME-based reporting approach",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft with steady progress",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for DNS operations and security, addresses real operational need",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-illyes-rep-purpose",
    "title": "Robots Exclusion Protocol User Agent Purpose Extension",
    "date": "2025-04-21",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-illyes-rep-purpose/",
    "pages": 4,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends the Robots Exclusion Protocol to target automatic clients based on their access purpose rather than just user-agent strings. Provides more granular control over automated access.",
    "novelty_note": "Logical extension to existing robots.txt with purpose-based targeting",
    "maturity_note": "Concise extension with clear scope, builds on established RFC",
    "overlap_note": "Extends RFC9309 but addresses different targeting mechanism",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate interest from web operators dealing with diverse automated clients",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as AI agents and web crawlers proliferate",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yang-alto-multi-domain",
    "title": "ALTO Multi-Domain Use Cases and Services",
    "date": "2024-01-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yang-alto-multi-domain/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Identifies use cases and challenges for ALTO in multi-domain environments where paths span multiple autonomous networks. Provides preliminary implementation approaches.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses known gap in ALTO multi-domain scenarios with structured analysis",
    "maturity_note": "Good problem analysis and use cases but implementation solutions need more detail",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on ALTO foundation with some overlap but addresses specific multi-domain gap",
    "momentum_note": "ALTO has established community with interest in multi-domain extensions",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for CDN optimization and application-layer traffic engineering",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-cosmos-protocol-specification",
    "title": "The Cosmos Protocol Specification (Trust-Native Semantic Protocol)",
    "date": "2026-01-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cosmos-protocol-specification/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines comprehensive badge-based identity and communication system with trust scoring, post-quantum encryption, and semantic messaging. Designed for deployments preferring to avoid external blockchain infrastructure while supporting decentralized identity management.",
    "novelty_note": "Ambitious integration of multiple novel concepts: badge identity, trust scoring, post-quantum crypto, semantic grammar",
    "maturity_note": "Very early stage with broad scope, appears incomplete based on abstract truncation",
    "overlap_note": "Some concepts exist separately but this specific integration approach is unique",
    "momentum_note": "Complex scope may hinder adoption, unclear community backing",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses important identity and trust challenges but may be overly ambitious",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-sz-dmsc-iaip",
    "title": "Intent-based Agent Interconnection Protocol at Agent Gateway",
    "date": "2026-02-10",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sz-dmsc-iaip/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines Intent-based Agent Interconnection Protocol (IAIP) for dynamic agent discovery and routing at gateways based on semantic intent rather than static addressing. Enables capability-based agent matching and dispatching.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel semantic intent-based routing approach for AI agents with dynamic capability matching",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage specification with broad scope but limited implementation detail",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with DNS-AID and AWP on agent discovery, but uses different semantic intent approach",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses emerging need for agent interconnection but lacks clear adoption path",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for multi-agent systems and agent interoperability infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wang-cats-innetwork-infer",
    "title": "An Open, Decentralized, and Scalable Framework for Large Language Model Inference",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-cats-innetwork-infer/",
    "pages": 30,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "A2A protocols",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes a framework for decentralized LLM inference across untrusted participants using layer-aware activation transport. Focuses on architectural design for distributed inference with explicit deadlines and security mechanisms.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to decentralized LLM inference with layer-aware transport",
    "maturity_note": "Architectural framework only, lacks concrete protocols and wire formats",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with other distributed inference drafts but unique decentralized approach",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses important scalability concerns but implementation complexity may limit adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to distributed AI infrastructure needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-xsaopig-nmop-service-flow-modal-mapping",
    "title": "Architecture for Service Flow Characteristics and Modal Mapping Based on SDN and ALTO Protocol",
    "date": "2025-10-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xsaopig-nmop-service-flow-modal-mapping/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes a framework using ALTO protocol and SDN architecture for mapping service flow characteristics to network modal resources in multi-modal intelligent computing networks. Focuses on dynamic resource allocation and network performance optimization.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel integration of ALTO, SDN, and multi-modal resource mapping for intelligent networks",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage framework with limited implementation details or validation",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with network resource allocation approaches but unique multi-modal focus",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses emerging needs but unclear industry adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses intelligent computing network requirements and resource optimization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yan-anima-brski-cle",
    "title": "BRSKI-CLE: A Certificateless Enrollment framework in BRSKI",
    "date": "2024-04-25",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yan-anima-brski-cle/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.35,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a certificateless enrollment framework for constrained IoT devices in BRSKI. Uses Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) for quantum-safe algorithms and lightweight credentials like CWTs.",
    "novelty_note": "High novelty in combining certificateless enrollment with quantum-safe KEM for IoT",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage 10-page draft, references other work but lacks implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with BRSKI and IoT enrollment work but unique certificateless approach",
    "momentum_note": "Part of ANIMA working group but relatively new approach",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for constrained IoT device bootstrapping and quantum-safe security",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mcp-over-moqt",
    "title": "Model Context Protocol over Media over QUIC Transport",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcp-over-moqt/",
    "pages": 32,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.3,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines transport mapping for Model Context Protocol over Media over QUIC Transport. Specifies how MCP messages map to MOQT objects for efficient delivery.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel transport combination addressing efficiency needs of MCP",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed at 32 pages with detailed protocol specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Identical to draft-jennings-mcp-over-moqt",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum, addresses important transport layer needs",
    "relevance_note": "Foundational transport work relevant to broader AI agent communication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jennings-mcp-over-moqt",
    "title": "Model Context Protocol over Media over QUIC Transport",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jennings-mcp-over-moqt/",
    "pages": 32,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.3,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines transport mapping for Model Context Protocol over Media over QUIC Transport. Specifies how MCP messages map to MOQT objects for efficient delivery.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel transport combination addressing efficiency needs of MCP",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed at 32 pages with detailed protocol specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Identical to draft-mcp-over-moqt",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum, Jennings authorship suggests established backing",
    "relevance_note": "Foundational transport work relevant to broader AI agent communication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-khatri-sipcore-call-transfer-fail-response",
    "title": "A SIP Response Code (497) for Call Transfer Failure",
    "date": "2024-01-25",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-khatri-sipcore-call-transfer-fail-response/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.3,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a new SIP response code (497) for indicating call transfer failures with optional granular warning codes. Allows SIP entities to handle subsequent calls more intelligently based on transfer failure information.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty - adds specific response code for call transfer scenarios, incremental improvement to SIP",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined scope, clear technical specification, builds on established SIP framework",
    "overlap_note": "Low overlap - addresses specific SIP response code gap not covered by existing drafts",
    "momentum_note": "SIP remains relevant but not cutting-edge, moderate vendor interest likely",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for VoIP systems and call centers, but limited to SIP-based communications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-vesely-dmarc-mlm-transform",
    "title": "Mailing List Manager (MLM) Transformations",
    "date": "2024-11-22",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vesely-dmarc-mlm-transform/",
    "pages": 17,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.3,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes method to revert mailing list transformations of From headers caused by DMARC adoption. Uses author-centric strategy to restore original sender information.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses real problem created by DMARC deployment, novel restoration approach",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed 17-page specification with detailed technical approach",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to DMARC-MLM compatibility issue",
    "momentum_note": "Important for email infrastructure but affects specific operator segment",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses ongoing email authentication challenges",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-housley-lamps-private-key-attest-attr",
    "title": "An Attribute for Statement of Possession of a Private Key",
    "date": "2025-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-housley-lamps-private-key-attest-attr/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.3,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines an X.509 attribute that allows certificate subjects to make signed statements proving possession of private keys. Enables CAs to accept attestations instead of direct proof-of-possession during certificate enrollment.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty in formalizing private key attestation as X.509 attribute",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined specification building on established X.509 and PKI standards",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general PKI enrollment but specific attestation approach is distinct",
    "momentum_note": "Standard PKI evolution with practical deployment potential",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for PKI deployments but limited to certificate enrollment scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zheng-dispatch-agent-identity-management",
    "title": "Agent Identity Managenment",
    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zheng-dispatch-agent-identity-management/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.3,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 5,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes an identity management framework for agents in an Internet of Agents (IOA) system, defining agent description requirements, registration processes with agent gateways, identifier structures, and management functions. It aims to provide foundational identity infrastructure for secure and scalable agent interoperability.",
    "novelty_note": "While identity management concepts are well-established, applying them specifically to AI agents with agent-specific attributes like intelligence level and form factor is relatively novel",
    "maturity_note": "This is version 00 with incomplete sections (Extended Information cut off), contains typos in title ('Managenment'), and lacks detailed technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with general identity management protocols and potentially with other agent discovery/registration drafts, but focuses specifically on IOA systems",
    "momentum_note": "Multiple authors from Huawei suggests organizational backing, but as a first version in dispatch working group indicates early stage exploration rather than established momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Identity management is fundamental for any multi-agent system and directly addresses core infrastructure needs for AI agent networking and interoperability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-narvaneni-agent-uri",
    "title": "The agent:// Protocol -- A URI-Based Framework for Interoperable Agents",
    "date": "2025-10-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-narvaneni-agent-uri/",
    "pages": 29,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.3,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft defines the agent:// URI scheme for addressing and interoperating with software agents across different platforms and ecosystems. It provides a layered framework supporting basic addressing/transport as well as extensible features like capability discovery and orchestration.",
    "novelty_note": "While URI schemes exist, this is the first standardized approach specifically for agent addressing with support for both remote and local agents",
    "maturity_note": "Draft shows good structure but has formatting issues, incomplete sections (truncated ABNF), and appears to be early stage experimental work",
    "overlap_note": "References existing agent communication protocols (FIPA-ACL, Contract Net) but positions itself as complementary addressing layer rather than competing",
    "momentum_note": "Independent submission by single author, revision 02 indicates some iteration, but no clear WG adoption or broader community engagement visible",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses critical interoperability challenge for agent ecosystems - standardized addressing is fundamental for agent-to-agent communication at scale",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jeong-opsawg-intent-based-sdv-framework",
    "title": "An Intent-Based Management Framework for Software-Defined Vehicles in Intelligent Transportation Systems",
    "date": "2025-12-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jeong-opsawg-intent-based-sdv-framework/",
    "pages": 20,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.3,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes intent-based management framework for Software-Defined Vehicles in ITS environments. Covers network, security, and application management for SDV-to-SDV and infrastructure communication.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of intent-based networking to automotive domain with ITS integration",
    "maturity_note": "High-level framework without detailed protocols or implementation specifics",
    "overlap_note": "Combines existing intent-based networking with vehicular networks in new way",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission in emerging but not yet mature SDV standardization space",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant to autonomous vehicle networking and intent-based agent systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-bernardos-nmrg-agentic-network-optimization",
    "title": "Solutions for enabling agentic sensing with network optimization",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bernardos-nmrg-agentic-network-optimization/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.3,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Focuses on agentic AI for distributed sensing in ISAC networks with joint optimization of sensing and communication. Addresses synchronization and processing constraints for multi-sensor fusion.",
    "novelty_note": "Specific application of agentic AI to ISAC sensing optimization",
    "maturity_note": "14 pages with good technical depth but appears incomplete in abstract",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general network optimization but ISAC focus is distinctive",
    "momentum_note": "ISAC is hot topic but agentic angle needs clearer positioning",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for specific sensing applications but narrower scope",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lake-traces",
    "title": "Traces of EDHOC",
    "date": "2024-03-21",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lake-traces/",
    "pages": 61,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Contains example protocol traces and test vectors for the EDHOC protocol. Serves as implementation guidance and verification material for EDHOC developers.",
    "novelty_note": "Documentation of examples rather than novel protocol development",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed traces document from established IETF working group",
    "overlap_note": "Unique traces document, no significant overlap with other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Strong momentum as official IETF working group item with recent updates",
    "relevance_note": "Important for EDHOC implementation but primarily developer-focused utility",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chuyi-nmrg-ai-agent-network",
    "title": "Large Model based Agents for Network Operation and Maintenance",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chuyi-nmrg-ai-agent-network/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Focuses on large language model-based agents for network operations and maintenance. Addresses practical challenges like system isolation and fragmented data in network operations.",
    "novelty_note": "Practical focus on LLM applications but incremental novelty",
    "maturity_note": "Moderate detail with scenario identification and impact analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with other network agent operation drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Good momentum with practical focus and standardization exploration",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance to current LLM and network automation trends",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-rtgwg-agent-gateway-requirements",
    "title": "Requirements for Agent Gateway",
    "date": "2025-11-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-rtgwg-agent-gateway-requirements/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Discusses requirements for Agent Gateways in agent-to-agent communications to improve scalability, efficiency and security. Identifies gaps in current gateway solutions that necessitate new Agent Gateway entities.",
    "novelty_note": "Requirements analysis for agent gateways shows some novelty in systematic approach",
    "maturity_note": "More mature requirements analysis compared to other drafts, though still early stage",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with agent gateway concepts in banking drafts but more technical focus",
    "momentum_note": "Requirements documents often gain traction if they address real needs",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as agent gateway requirements are fundamental to agent networking",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-pioli-agent-discovery",
    "title": "Agent Registration and Discovery Protocol (ARDP)",
    "date": "2026-02-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pioli-agent-discovery/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies ARDP, a lightweight protocol for agent registration and discovery in distributed environments. Provides stable identities, endpoint resolution, capability advertisement, and security-first discovery.",
    "novelty_note": "Well-defined protocol approach to agent discovery with practical transport-agnostic design",
    "maturity_note": "More concrete protocol specification with clear technical components and interoperability focus",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with discovery aspects of other drafts but focuses specifically on the protocol layer",
    "momentum_note": "Agent discovery is fundamental need but market adoption unclear",
    "relevance_note": "Essential building block for distributed agent systems across many domains",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-diaconu-agents-authz-info-sharing",
    "title": "Cross-Domain AuthZ Information sharing for Agents",
    "date": "2026-02-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-diaconu-agents-authz-info-sharing/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Addresses authorization challenges in distributed multi-agent systems across multiple domains. Covers dynamic identity, interoperable claims, and verifiable credentials for secure cross-domain authorization.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies existing identity/authorization concepts to multi-agent context with cross-domain focus",
    "maturity_note": "Substantial document addressing real security challenges but builds on established identity patterns",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with identity aspects of cross-domain drafts but deeper focus on authorization specifics",
    "momentum_note": "Authorization is critical for agent deployment but competing standards may emerge",
    "relevance_note": "Essential for practical multi-domain agent systems where security is paramount",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-gaikwad-woa",
    "title": "The Web of Agents (WoA)",
    "date": "2025-11-30",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gaikwad-woa/",
    "pages": 19,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies Web of Agents (WoA) format using JSON Schema to describe AI agent inputs/outputs served from well-known HTTP locations. Provides uniform invocation convention for HTTP-hosted AI agents without defining discovery protocols.",
    "novelty_note": "Straightforward application of existing web standards to agent description and invocation",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonable level of detail for interface specification, builds on established HTTP/JSON patterns",
    "overlap_note": "Similar to OpenAPI/service description approaches but agent-specific",
    "momentum_note": "Practical approach leveraging web infrastructure, moderate interest likely",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for web-based agent interoperability and standardization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ahn-opsawg-5g-security-i2nsf-framework",
    "title": "An Integrated Security Service System for 5G Networks using an I2NSF Framework",
    "date": "2026-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ahn-opsawg-5g-security-i2nsf-framework/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes an integrated security framework for 5G edge networks using I2NSF architecture with Intent-Based Networking. Enables automated translation of high-level security intents into enforceable policies across network and application layers.",
    "novelty_note": "Combines existing I2NSF and IBN concepts for 5G security but integration approach shows some novelty",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured framework but lacks implementation details and validation results",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with existing I2NSF and 5G security work, but specific integration is less explored",
    "momentum_note": "5G security is active area but I2NSF adoption has been moderate",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for autonomous 5G security management and policy automation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhao-detnet-enhanced-use-cases",
    "title": "Enhanced Use Cases for Scaling Deterministic Networks",
    "date": "2026-02-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhao-detnet-enhanced-use-cases/",
    "pages": 25,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes enhanced use cases for scaling deterministic networks beyond RFC8578, covering industrial internet, high-experience video, intelligent computing, and ISAC-enabled smart factories. Outlines common properties and network requirements for these scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Extends existing DetNet work with new use cases including intelligent computing applications",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive use case analysis but implementation details not yet developed",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on RFC8578 but addresses new application domains",
    "momentum_note": "Strong relevance to emerging industrial and AI computing requirements",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to AI systems requiring deterministic network behavior",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-traffic-analysis-and-network-mode-mapping",
    "title": "Network Traffic Analysis and Network Modal Mapping Method",
    "date": "2025-09-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-traffic-analysis-and-network-mode-mapping/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents an LLM-based framework for network traffic classification and modality mapping to improve resource allocation efficiency. Uses two-phase approach with pre-training for traffic representations and dynamic mapping for resource strategies.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of LLMs to traffic analysis and multi-modal resource mapping",
    "maturity_note": "Conceptual framework without detailed implementation or validation results",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with draft-xsaopig-nmop-service-flow-modal-mapping on modal mapping concepts",
    "momentum_note": "Relevant to ML-driven networking but early development stage",
    "relevance_note": "Directly applies AI/ML to traffic management and network resource optimization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-nourse-scep",
    "title": "Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol",
    "date": "2025-05-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nourse-scep/",
    "pages": 43,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol using PKCS#7 and PKCS#10 over HTTP. Formalizes the widely deployed protocol originally developed by VeriSign for Cisco.",
    "novelty_note": "Standardizing existing widely-deployed protocol rather than new innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Mature protocol with extensive real-world deployment and implementation experience",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with other certificate enrollment protocols like EST and CMP",
    "momentum_note": "Steady momentum for standardizing de facto standard protocol",
    "relevance_note": "High practical relevance due to widespread existing deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-idr-bgp-dpa",
    "title": "Destination Preference Attribute for BGP",
    "date": "2024-08-23",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-dpa/",
    "pages": 4,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.25,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces Destination Preference Attribute for BGP to enable autonomous systems to specify globally transitive metrics. Aims to facilitate symmetric routing and load sharing in multi-provider environments.",
    "novelty_note": "New BGP attribute with specific application for return traffic preferences shows moderate novelty",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined technical specification but compact at only 4 pages, may need more detail",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with BGP traffic engineering but specific DPA approach is relatively unique",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft with established BGP community interest",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to BGP operations but addresses specific use case rather than broad applicability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tong-network-agent-use-cases-in-6g",
    "title": "Network AI Agent Use Cases and Requirements in 6G",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tong-network-agent-use-cases-in-6g/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces network AI agent use cases in 6G focusing on connectivity services and third-party applications, drawing from 3GPP scenarios. Discusses integration requirements within 6G framework.",
    "novelty_note": "6G-specific agent use cases provide some novelty but builds heavily on existing 3GPP work",
    "maturity_note": "Use case focused with limited technical specification details",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with general AI agent networking but 6G focus provides differentiation",
    "momentum_note": "6G and AI agents are both high-interest areas with strong industry momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant as 6G networks will likely require extensive AI agent capabilities",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-gupta-httpapi-events-query",
    "title": "HTTP Events Query",
    "date": "2025-10-17",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gupta-httpapi-events-query/",
    "pages": 29,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes Events Query Protocol (EQP) built on HTTP for user agents to receive event notifications directly from resources. Offers intuitive approach where resources themselves are event sources.",
    "novelty_note": "Builds on existing HTTP but novel application to direct resource-based event notifications",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed at 29 pages with detailed protocol specification",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing HTTP event mechanisms like Server-Sent Events",
    "momentum_note": "Solid technical foundation but unclear adoption trajectory",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for AI agents needing event streams, but not AI-specific",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-emu-eap-edhoc",
    "title": "Using the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) with Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman over COSE (EDHOC)",
    "date": "2026-02-14",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emu-eap-edhoc/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines EAP authentication method based on EDHOC for constrained environments. Integrates EDHOC's lightweight security handshake into the standard EAP framework.",
    "novelty_note": "Reasonable novelty in bridging EAP and EDHOC protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed 31-page specification with clear integration approach",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with EDHOC family but unique in EAP integration",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum from enterprise network authentication needs",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for enterprise networks requiring constrained device authentication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-lake-pocero-authkem-edhoc",
    "title": "KEM-based Authentication for EDHOC",
    "date": "2025-10-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lake-pocero-authkem-edhoc/",
    "pages": 33,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft extends the EDHOC protocol to provide quantum-resistant authentication using KEM-based mechanisms instead of traditional signatures. It addresses the need for post-quantum cryptography in IoT and constrained device authentication scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty in applying KEM-based authentication to EDHOC, building on established PQC concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft with basic specification but likely needs implementation experience and security analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general PQC standardization efforts but specific to EDHOC protocol extensions",
    "momentum_note": "High momentum due to urgent industry need for quantum-resistant cryptography in IoT/constrained devices",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as quantum threat becomes more imminent and IoT devices need lightweight PQC solutions",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-intellinode-ai-semantic-contract",
    "title": "Semantic-Driven Traffic Shaping Contract for AI Networks",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-intellinode-ai-semantic-contract/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines contracts allowing AI applications to communicate semantic information about tensor flows to networks for optimized scheduling. Networks commit to differentiated forwarding based on these semantics and real-time states.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to expose AI workload semantics to network layer for optimization",
    "maturity_note": "Very brief document with limited technical detail and no protocol specifics",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with other IntelliNode drafts on AI-aware networking",
    "momentum_note": "Short document suggests early-stage development with limited backing",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to emerging AI infrastructure optimization needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-cgfabk-nmrg-ibn-generative-ai",
    "title": "Generative AI for Intent-Based Networking",
    "date": "2025-10-17",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cgfabk-nmrg-ibn-generative-ai/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes methods for specializing AI models to create targeted generative models for Intent-Based Networking. Focuses on making IBN systems more scalable and efficient through AI techniques.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies generative AI to IBN, combining two established areas in new way",
    "maturity_note": "Conceptual framework provided but lacks detailed technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing IBN and AI model work but specific combination is less explored",
    "momentum_note": "High interest in both generative AI and network automation creates good momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant as networks seek more intelligent automation capabilities",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhao-anima-automatic-congestion-relief",
    "title": "Automatic Network Congestion Relief",
    "date": "2025-09-04",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhao-anima-automatic-congestion-relief/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces automatic congestion relief using intelligent traffic analysis and dynamic regulation. Focuses on real-time self-healing response to fiber failures and network congestion events.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty - intelligent congestion management is active area, self-healing angle is useful",
    "maturity_note": "Low maturity - only 7 pages for complex topic, lacks implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with existing traffic engineering and congestion control mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "High momentum - network automation and intelligent traffic management are hot topics",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for modern network operations and autonomous systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-it-aipref-attachment",
    "title": "Indicating Preferences Regarding Content Usage",
    "date": "2025-05-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-it-aipref-attachment/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines HTTP-based signaling mechanism for content usage preferences by automated systems. Updates RFC9309 to include usage preferences alongside content acquisition.",
    "novelty_note": "Practical extension to existing RFC with focused HTTP integration approach",
    "maturity_note": "Concise and focused update to established RFC with clear implementation path",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with RFC9309 and broader AI preference signaling space",
    "momentum_note": "Older timestamp suggests less active recent development compared to other drafts",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for content creator rights and automated system compliance",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-meunier-webbotauth-registry",
    "title": "Registry and Signature Agent card for Web bot auth",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meunier-webbotauth-registry/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a JSON format for web bot signature agent cards to advertise identity, purpose, and cryptographic keys. Establishes IANA registry for extensible agent metadata discovery.",
    "novelty_note": "Builds on existing agent card concepts but adds signature-specific elements",
    "maturity_note": "Basic format definition with registry setup, needs more implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general agent identity work but signature focus is distinct",
    "momentum_note": "Early draft with limited community engagement visible",
    "relevance_note": "Agent identity and discovery are critical infrastructure needs for AI systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-illyes-aipref-jafar",
    "title": "A JSON-Based Format for Publishing IP Ranges of Automated HTTP Clients",
    "date": "2025-09-30",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-illyes-aipref-jafar/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines JSON format for automated HTTP client operators to publish their IP ranges publicly. Aims to help identify legitimate automated traffic and reduce blocking of beneficial clients.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel standardization of existing practices for IP range disclosure",
    "maturity_note": "Concise 8-page spec but individual submission lacks WG validation",
    "overlap_note": "Complementary to other drafts, focuses on client identification not preferences",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission without clear working group adoption path",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for automated client identification and traffic management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chu-oauth-as-attested-user-cert",
    "title": "OAuth 2.0 Rich Authorization Requests for AS-Attested User Certificates",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chu-oauth-as-attested-user-cert/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.2,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth 2.0 Rich Authorization Requests to allow clients like AI agents to request AS-attested user certificates in access tokens. This enables resource servers to verify delegation evidence signed by resource owners.",
    "novelty_note": "Extends existing OAuth RAR framework for agent-specific use case",
    "maturity_note": "Concise 9-page specification but could benefit from more examples",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on OAuth standards but agent certificate binding is unique",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission with narrow scope may limit adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Important for agent authentication and delegation scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-kale-agntcy-federated-privacy",
    "title": "Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Architecture for Multi-Tenant AI Agent Systems",
    "date": "2026-01-08",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kale-agntcy-federated-privacy/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies architecture for privacy-preserving federated learning across multi-tenant AI agent systems. Combines federated averaging, differential privacy, and secure aggregation to enable cross-organizational model training while maintaining data isolation.",
    "novelty_note": "Standard application of known federated learning techniques to multi-tenant agent scenarios",
    "maturity_note": "Reference architecture with established privacy techniques, reasonable technical depth",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing federated learning and differential privacy literature",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses practical deployment concerns, moderate community interest expected",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for enterprise AI agent deployments requiring privacy preservation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mao-rtgwg-apn-framework-for-ioa",
    "title": "APN Framework for Internet of Agent (IoA)",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mao-rtgwg-apn-framework-for-ioa/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Applies Application-aware Performance Network framework to Internet of Agents scenario. Addresses network service requirements for AI agent interactions across different platforms.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies existing APN framework to new IoA use case",
    "maturity_note": "Framework-level document with some technical detail but limited implementation",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with existing APN work, incremental IoA application",
    "momentum_note": "Routing working group context provides some momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for agent network performance and quality of service",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhang-dmsc-ioa-semantic-interaction",
    "title": "Ontology-based Semantic Interaction for Internet of Agents",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-dmsc-ioa-semantic-interaction/",
    "pages": 19,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies a semantic layer for Internet of Agents using ontology models and JSON-LD serialization. Defines common vocabulary and negotiation procedures for deterministic semantic interoperability across agent domains.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies semantic web technologies to agent interaction, moderately novel combination",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonable technical depth but semantic alignment challenges remain complex",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with IoA task protocol draft, both targeting agent interoperability",
    "momentum_note": "Part of broader IoA effort but semantic web adoption in agents unclear",
    "relevance_note": "Important for agent interoperability but semantic standardization faces adoption challenges",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-sun-zhang-iaip",
    "title": "Intent-based Agent Interconnection Protocol at Agent Gateway",
    "date": "2026-02-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sun-zhang-iaip/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines Intent-based Agent Interconnection Protocol for Agent Gateways, focusing on semantic intent rather than network addressing. Specifies agent registration, capability advertisement, and intent-based routing mechanisms.",
    "novelty_note": "Intent-based approach to agent interconnection shows reasonable novelty",
    "maturity_note": "Decent technical specification though gateway architecture needs more detail",
    "overlap_note": "Substantial overlap with other IoA drafts, particularly in agent discovery and registration",
    "momentum_note": "Part of emerging agent infrastructure standards but adoption path unclear",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to agent infrastructure but intent-based networking adoption still emerging",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-nmrg-ai-llm-inference-requirements",
    "title": "Requirements Analysis of System and Network for Large Language Model Inference Service",
    "date": "2025-11-04",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-nmrg-ai-llm-inference-requirements/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes system and network requirements for large-scale LLM inference services. Investigates mainstream inference frameworks and their network management challenges.",
    "novelty_note": "Useful requirements analysis but builds on existing inference frameworks",
    "maturity_note": "Good survey of existing systems with clear problem identification",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with other LLM serving and inference optimization work",
    "momentum_note": "Recent and addresses important scaling challenges",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for understanding LLM deployment requirements at scale",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ra-emu-pqc-eapaka",
    "title": "Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (PQ KEMs) in EAP-AKA prime",
    "date": "2025-07-10",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ra-emu-pqc-eapaka/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Enhances EAP-AKA' with post-quantum key encapsulation mechanisms to protect against quantum computer threats. Replaces traditional ECDHE with PQ-KEMs for quantum-safe authentication.",
    "novelty_note": "Straightforward application of PQ-KEMs to existing protocol",
    "maturity_note": "Clear technical approach but early stage specification",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with draft-ar-emu-hybrid-pqc-eapaka addressing same protocol",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate interest in post-quantum security preparations",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for quantum-resistant authentication protocols",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liao-aipref-autoctl-ext",
    "title": "Protocol Extension for Automation Control",
    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liao-aipref-autoctl-ext/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Policy/governance",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends automation control protocols with granular permissions including rate limiting, technology restrictions, and API permissions. Provides service owners detailed control over automated interactions beyond basic core specifications.",
    "novelty_note": "Reasonable extension of existing automation control concepts with practical granular controls",
    "maturity_note": "References core spec but appears well-structured for an extension document",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with core automation control draft and general AI preference space",
    "momentum_note": "Part of related draft series with recent timestamps suggesting active development",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for AI automation management with practical granular controls",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-hw-ai-agent-6g",
    "title": "Requirements and Enabling Technologies of Agent Protocols for 6G Networks",
    "date": "2026-01-21",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hw-ai-agent-6g/",
    "pages": 20,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft analyzes requirements for agent protocols specifically tailored to 6G mobile networks, examining how mobile network characteristics like QoS guarantees, mobility, and resource dynamicity create unique needs for agent communication. It proposes a multi-layer protocol architecture including agent governance, meta-protocol, security, and transport layers to enable multi-agent systems across terminals, networks, and services.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel focus on mobile network-specific agent protocol requirements, but builds on existing agent communication concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft with requirements analysis but limited concrete protocol specifications or implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general agent communication protocols but focuses specifically on mobile/6G context which is relatively unique",
    "momentum_note": "Multiple authors from major telecom companies (Huawei, China Telecom, China Unicom) suggest industry interest, but appears to be initial version",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as it addresses agent networking in critical mobile infrastructure context with specific focus on multi-agent systems and QoS requirements",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yao-agent-auth-considerations",
    "title": "Further considerations on AI Agent Authentication and Authorization Based on OAuth Extension",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yao-agent-auth-considerations/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth model for AI agent authentication and authorization in Agent Communication Networks. Proposes new workflows addressing unique requirements of agent-to-agent authentication.",
    "novelty_note": "Reasonable extension of OAuth to agent domain with some novel considerations",
    "maturity_note": "Early conceptual work building on OAuth but lacks detailed protocol specification",
    "overlap_note": "Some conceptual overlap with general OAuth extensions but agent-specific",
    "momentum_note": "OAuth is well-established but agent auth is still developing",
    "relevance_note": "Critical for secure agent ecosystems as they become more prevalent",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-dmsc-inf-architecture",
    "title": "Dynamic Multi-agent Secured Collaboration Infrastructure Architecture",
    "date": "2026-02-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-dmsc-inf-architecture/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes a network infrastructure architecture for large-scale multi-agent collaboration. Focuses on how network control and forwarding functions can actively participate in agent coordination.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of network infrastructure to agent collaboration, but builds on existing networking concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage architectural framework, lacks implementation details and validation",
    "overlap_note": "Related to other DMSC drafts but focuses specifically on infrastructure layer",
    "momentum_note": "Part of coordinated DMSC effort, moderate early interest expected",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as agent systems scale and need infrastructure support",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zeng-mcp-troubleshooting",
    "title": "Using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Intent-Based Network Troubleshooting Automation",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zeng-mcp-troubleshooting/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Applies Model Context Protocol to network management for intent-based troubleshooting. Maps MCP roles to network devices and controllers for automated operations.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of MCP to network management domain with practical automation benefits",
    "maturity_note": "Brief document with limited technical depth and implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Unique application domain though builds on existing MCP standard",
    "momentum_note": "Interesting network management application but narrow scope may limit adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for network automation and demonstrates practical AI agent applications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-a2a-moqt-transport",
    "title": "Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT) for Agent-to-Agent Protocol",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-a2a-moqt-transport/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies transport of Agent-to-Agent protocol over Media over QUIC Transport. Leverages MOQT's publish/subscribe model for real-time AI agent communication.",
    "novelty_note": "Creative application of media transport protocol for AI agent communication",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage specification, lacks implementation details and validation",
    "overlap_note": "Identical to draft-nandakumar-a2a-moqt-transport",
    "momentum_note": "Growing interest in A2A protocols but MOQT adoption for non-media unclear",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for real-time agent communication infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-levy-llm-uri-scheme",
    "title": "The \"llm\" URI Scheme",
    "date": "2026-02-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-levy-llm-uri-scheme/",
    "pages": 17,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a URI scheme for identifying LLM endpoints with embedded configuration parameters. Creates a standardized way to specify model, provider, authentication, and inference parameters in a single connection string.",
    "novelty_note": "URI schemes for AI services are emerging but not well-established in standards",
    "maturity_note": "Early draft with basic specification, needs more implementation experience",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general service discovery but specific to LLM endpoints",
    "momentum_note": "Growing interest in LLM standardization but limited IETF momentum",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for LLM integration and interoperability in network applications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-silver-aipref-vocab-substitutive",
    "title": "Vocabulary For Expressing AI Substitutive Usage",
    "date": "2025-09-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-silver-aipref-vocab-substitutive/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes vocabulary for expressing preferences about AI substitutive usage of digital assets, focusing on inference-time uses that create outputs substituting for original content. Nests within broader automated processing preference framework.",
    "novelty_note": "Specific focus on substitutive AI usage is novel within preference expression frameworks",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage vocabulary proposal that needs broader community input and refinement",
    "overlap_note": "Related to general AI preference frameworks but focuses on specific substitutive use case",
    "momentum_note": "Growing importance of AI usage preferences but early adoption phase",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for content protection and AI governance discussions",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ruan-spring-priority-flow-control-sid",
    "title": "SRv6 behavior extention for Flow Control in WAN",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ruan-spring-priority-flow-control-sid/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends SRv6 with flow control capabilities for WAN environments supporting RDMA-based AI workloads. Enables congestion notification and response for distributed AI training and inference.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of SRv6 to AI traffic flow control in WAN scenarios",
    "maturity_note": "Technical approach appears sound but document seems incomplete",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on SRv6 but addresses distinct flow control requirements",
    "momentum_note": "Growing interest in AI traffic management but early stage work",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses important WAN flow control needs for distributed AI",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-hw-protocol-agent",
    "title": "AI Agent Protocols for Multi-modality",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hw-protocol-agent/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes network-level recognition of AI agent multi-modal data transmission requirements. Aims to improve quality of service for diverse data types within agent traffic flows.",
    "novelty_note": "Network awareness of multi-modal AI traffic is emerging but not deeply explored in IETF context",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage work with broad scope but limited technical detail on implementation",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general QoS and traffic management but specific to AI agents",
    "momentum_note": "Growing interest in AI traffic optimization but limited industry engagement visible",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as AI agent traffic becomes dominant network workload",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-peterson-mimi-idprover",
    "title": "An Identitifier Proof-of-Possession Mechanism",
    "date": "2024-09-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-peterson-mimi-idprover/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a mechanism for third-party services to prove and attest the association between communication platforms and users' telephone numbers. Supports secure enrollment for messaging platforms requiring verified phone number identifiers.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty in combining proof-of-possession with phone number attestation for messaging interoperability",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft with basic specification, needs more implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general identity attestation work but specific to messaging platforms",
    "momentum_note": "Part of active MIMI working group efforts for messaging interoperability",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for secure messaging and identity verification in communication systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-amsuess-ace-brski-ace",
    "title": "Provisioning ACE credentials through BRSKI",
    "date": "2024-01-08",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-amsuess-ace-brski-ace/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends BRSKI voucher mechanism to provision ACE credentials for domain onboarding. Bridges PKI-managed and ACE-managed domain authentication.",
    "novelty_note": "Creative integration of two different authentication frameworks",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage work needing more detailed protocol specification and validation",
    "overlap_note": "Unique combination of BRSKI and ACE with minimal existing overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Limited adoption momentum, niche use case",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for IoT device onboarding but serves specific architectural scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mvieuille-kerpass-ephemsec",
    "title": "KerPass EPHEMSEC One-Time Password Algorithm",
    "date": "2025-11-22",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mvieuille-kerpass-ephemsec/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.15,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies EPHEMSEC algorithm for generating one-time passwords using public key cryptography instead of shared secrets. Includes context binding for phishing resistance and built-in time synchronization.",
    "novelty_note": "Innovative approach to OTP generation with public key cryptography and context binding features",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed algorithm specification but needs broader security analysis and implementation testing",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing OTP algorithms but introduces novel public key approach",
    "momentum_note": "Single author with limited industry validation or adoption signals",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to AI agent authentication but not specifically designed for agent use cases",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tojens-dhcp-option-concat-considerations",
    "title": "DHCP Option Concatenation Considerations",
    "date": "2025-09-04",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tojens-dhcp-option-concat-considerations/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.1,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates RFC 3396 to make DHCP option concatenation requirements more flexible. Addresses real-world implementation deviations from original strict concatenation requirements.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement addressing deployment reality rather than novel approach",
    "maturity_note": "Well-motivated by deployment experience and clear problem statement",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on this specific DHCP implementation issue",
    "momentum_note": "Standards update addressing known interoperability issues should gain support",
    "relevance_note": "Important for DHCP implementations but narrow technical scope",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5274bis",
    "title": "Certificate Management Messages over CMS (CMC): Compliance Requirements",
    "date": "2026-02-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5274bis/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.1,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines compliance requirements for Certificate Management Messages over CMS (CMC) enrollment protocol. Updates and obsoletes previous RFCs with current compliance statements.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental update to existing CMC compliance requirements",
    "maturity_note": "Mature IETF working group draft updating well-established protocols",
    "overlap_note": "Specific to CMC compliance, minimal overlap with other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Standard LAMPS working group progression",
    "relevance_note": "Important for PKI certificate management compliance",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-vinaysingh-awp-wellknown",
    "title": "The Agent Workflow Protocol (AWP) Well-Known Resource and Link Relation",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vinaysingh-awp-wellknown/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.1,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines well-known URI and link relation for exposing website workflows to automated agents. Provides minimal JSON format for agent interaction without web scraping.",
    "novelty_note": "Simple approach to structured agent-web interaction using established well-known URI pattern",
    "maturity_note": "Concise specification with clear scope, though limited technical depth",
    "overlap_note": "Complements other agent discovery mechanisms but focuses on web workflow exposure",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate potential given simplicity but requires website operator adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for web-based agent interactions and structured workflow automation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-contario-totp-secure-enrollment",
    "title": "TOTP Secure Enrollment",
    "date": "2025-09-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-contario-totp-secure-enrollment/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.1,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends TOTP enrollment to prevent key compromise through QR code capture or key persistence in external systems. Addresses common security vulnerabilities in current TOTP deployment practices.",
    "novelty_note": "Practical security improvement to widely-used TOTP enrollment process",
    "maturity_note": "Addresses real-world security concerns but builds incrementally on existing TOTP framework",
    "overlap_note": "Extends TOTP standard with minimal overlap to existing secure enrollment methods",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate interest given widespread TOTP usage but may face adoption challenges",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for agent authentication security but not AI/agent-specific",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-architect-cittamarket",
    "title": "The CITTAMARKET Protocol: Decentralized AGI Identity Anchoring via Bitcoin",
    "date": "2025-12-19",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-architect-cittamarket/",
    "pages": 3,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.1,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 1,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies protocol for immutable AGI system identification using Bitcoin blockchain anchoring. Defines four-layer architecture for creating unforgeable 'Sovereign Identity' records with Proof-of-Work coordination.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel approach combining AGI identity, blockchain anchoring, and distributed coordination",
    "maturity_note": "Only 3 pages with minimal technical detail, appears more conceptual than implementable",
    "overlap_note": "Unique combination of AGI, Bitcoin, and identity concepts not seen in other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission with unconventional approach, unlikely to gain IETF traction",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses AGI identity which is relevant but approach may be impractical for real deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-xu-sidrops-asrank-vulnerabilities",
    "title": "Structural Vulnerabilities in ASRank under Adversarial Conditions",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xu-sidrops-asrank-vulnerabilities/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.1,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes security vulnerabilities in the ASRank algorithm used for inferring AS business relationships from BGP data. Identifies how adversarial manipulation could affect inference results.",
    "novelty_note": "Important security analysis of widely-used BGP analysis tool, though builds on existing ASRank work",
    "maturity_note": "Solid analysis with concrete examples, but primarily analytical rather than proposing solutions",
    "overlap_note": "Related to BGP security research but specific focus on ASRank vulnerabilities is unique",
    "momentum_note": "BGP security remains important but ASRank-specific work has limited audience",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for network security and BGP operations, though somewhat specialized",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ingles-eap-edhoc",
    "title": "Using the Extensible Authentication Protocol with Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman over COSE (EDHOC)",
    "date": "2024-06-13",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ingles-eap-edhoc/",
    "pages": 22,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.1,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies how to use EDHOC (Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE) as an authentication method within the Extensible Authentication Protocol framework. Provides lightweight authenticated key exchange for network access scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Combines existing EAP framework with EDHOC protocol in a straightforward integration",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonable specification but limited implementation experience evident",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with other EAP methods but EDHOC integration is relatively unique",
    "momentum_note": "Part of broader EDHOC ecosystem but individual draft momentum unclear",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for IoT and constrained device authentication scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zw-nmrg-mcp-network-mgmt",
    "title": "Model Context Protocol (MCP) Extensions for Network Equipment Management",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zw-nmrg-mcp-network-mgmt/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines MCP extensions for network equipment management using JSON-RPC 2.0 framework. Specifies how network devices can act as MCP servers with controllers as clients.",
    "novelty_note": "Practical extension of existing MCP protocol to networking domain",
    "maturity_note": "More mature at 18 pages with detailed technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Nearly identical to draft-zw-opsawg-mcp-network-mgmt",
    "momentum_note": "",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to autonomous network management and AI-driven operations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zw-opsawg-mcp-network-mgmt",
    "title": "Model Context Protocol (MCP) Extensions for Network Equipment Management",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zw-opsawg-mcp-network-mgmt/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines MCP extensions for network equipment management using JSON-RPC 2.0 framework. Specifies how network devices can act as MCP servers with controllers as clients.",
    "novelty_note": "Practical extension of existing MCP protocol to networking domain",
    "maturity_note": "More mature at 18 pages, updated version suggests active development",
    "overlap_note": "Nearly identical to draft-zw-nmrg-mcp-network-mgmt, likely venue change",
    "momentum_note": "Active development shown by venue migration and updates",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to autonomous network management and AI-driven operations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-aft-ai-traffic",
    "title": "Handling inter-DC/Edge AI-related network traffic: Problem statement",
    "date": "2025-10-13",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-aft-ai-traffic/",
    "pages": 38,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Problem statement addressing network traffic challenges for federated LLM training and inference across datacenters. Emphasizes understanding AI workload characteristics for distributed operations.",
    "novelty_note": "Solid problem identification for federated AI, but remains at problem statement level",
    "maturity_note": "More recent version, better positioned but still needs solution development",
    "overlap_note": "Identical abstract to draft-ai-traffic, appears to be same work under different name",
    "momentum_note": "More recent version suggests continued interest, but needs solution development",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses critical federated AI networking challenges relevant to industry needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ni-wimse-ai-agent-identity",
    "title": "WIMSE Applicability for AI Agents",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ni-wimse-ai-agent-identity/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Applies WIMSE (Workload Identity in Multi System Environments) framework to AI agents for identity and credential management. Focuses on establishing independent identities for AI agents operating across systems.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty in applying existing WIMSE to AI agents",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage, limited technical detail in abstract",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with other agent identity drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Part of emerging AI agent standardization work",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as agent identity is foundational",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-sipos-dtn-bp-safe",
    "title": "Bundle Protocol (BP) Security Associations with Few Exchanges (SAFE)",
    "date": "2025-12-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sipos-dtn-bp-safe/",
    "pages": 77,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines security association negotiation protocol for Bundle Protocol agents in delay-tolerant networks. Optimizes asymmetric-key operations for high-throughput DTN security.",
    "novelty_note": "DTN-specific security associations are somewhat novel but follow established patterns",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 77-page specification with detailed protocol definitions",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with general security association protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Mature specification but DTN market is niche",
    "relevance_note": "Limited relevance to mainstream AI agent deployments",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chen-lake-edhoc-aka",
    "title": "EDHOC Authenticated with AKA",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-lake-edhoc-aka/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines EDHOC-AKA authentication method combining AKA protocol with EDHOC for mobile network access authentication. Designed for resource-constrained scenarios like Non-Terrestrial Networks using symmetric cryptography.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel combination of AKA and EDHOC but builds on well-established protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage specification with limited technical detail and implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing AKA and EDHOC protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate interest from mobile network and satellite communication communities",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for satellite and mobile network authentication scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-bernardos-cats-isac-uc",
    "title": "Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) for CATS",
    "date": "2026-01-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bernardos-cats-isac-uc/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) as a use case for CATS architecture. Explores joint optimization of sensing and communication functions for autonomous systems and smart cities.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies existing ISAC concepts to CATS framework, use case exploration rather than protocol innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Early-stage use case document, limited technical depth in protocol specifics",
    "overlap_note": "ISAC concepts exist elsewhere, overlap with general CATS and sensing integration work",
    "momentum_note": "Part of emerging CATS discussions but still exploratory phase",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for future autonomous systems requiring integrated sensing and communication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chuyi-nmrg-agentic-network-inference",
    "title": "Agentic Network Architecture and Protocol for Supporting Agent Interconnection Communication and Multi-level Inference",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chuyi-nmrg-agentic-network-inference/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Model serving/inference",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes network architecture for multi-agent interconnection and multi-level inference across cloud-edge-end environments. Addresses coordination and scheduling for collaborative agent tasks.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses emerging need for agent interconnection but concepts are broad",
    "maturity_note": "Short 9-page draft with high-level concepts, needs more technical detail",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with general distributed AI and edge computing work",
    "momentum_note": "Timely topic but execution needs strengthening",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant to future agent-centric network architectures",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yc-ipv6-for-ioa",
    "title": "Capabilities and Future Requirements of IPv6 for the Internet of Agents (IoA)",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yc-ipv6-for-ioa/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes IPv6 capabilities for supporting Internet of Agents (IoA) infrastructure. Explores how IPv6's address space and features can enable billions of intelligent agents.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies existing IPv6 to new IoA domain with some novel requirements",
    "maturity_note": "7-page analysis document without concrete protocol extensions",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps conceptually with other IoA drafts but IPv6-specific angle",
    "momentum_note": "Builds on established IPv6 foundation for emerging IoA applications",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for scaling agent communications to massive deployments",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-patwhite-aauth",
    "title": "AAuth - Agentic Authorization OAuth 2.1 Extension",
    "date": "2025-05-13",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-patwhite-aauth/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.05,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines OAuth 2.1 extension for AI agents to obtain user consent and access tokens through polling or real-time channels. Adapts device flow for long-lived agent identities with natural language descriptions.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel adaptation of OAuth device flow specifically for AI agents",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage specification, needs more detail and security analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Builds heavily on OAuth 2.0 device flow but for different use case",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate interest as agent authorization becomes more important",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses critical agent authorization gap in current standards",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wendt-stir-vesper",
    "title": "VESPER - Framework for VErifiable STI Personas",
    "date": "2025-11-04",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wendt-stir-vesper/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.0,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Formalizes framework for verifiable telephone number identity using delegate certificates and authority tokens. Extends existing STIR/SHAKEN work with transparency mechanisms and rich call data support.",
    "novelty_note": "Evolution of existing STIR work with verifiable transparency elements",
    "maturity_note": "Mature technical specification building on established protocols",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with existing STIR/SHAKEN and certificate transparency work",
    "momentum_note": "Strong technical detail and builds on author's established work",
    "relevance_note": "Telephony-focused, limited relevance to AI agent networking",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lamps-e2e-mail-guidance",
    "title": "Guidance on End-to-End E-mail Security",
    "date": "2025-08-23",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-e2e-mail-guidance/",
    "pages": 68,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.0,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Provides comprehensive guidance for implementing end-to-end email encryption securely. Addresses usability issues and interoperability problems in cryptographic email protection.",
    "novelty_note": "Guidance document for existing standards rather than novel technical contribution",
    "maturity_note": "Mature 68-page IETF working group document with extensive detail",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing email security standards but provides unique implementation guidance",
    "momentum_note": "Strong IETF working group backing with clear implementation focus",
    "relevance_note": "Limited relevance to AI/agent protocols beyond general secure communication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-nandakumar-a2a-moqt-transport",
    "title": "Media over QUIC Transport (MOQT) for Agent-to-Agent Protocol",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nandakumar-a2a-moqt-transport/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.0,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Identical specification to draft-a2a-moqt-transport for transporting Agent-to-Agent protocol over MOQT. Appears to be duplicate submission with different author.",
    "novelty_note": "Same novel approach as duplicate draft",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage, identical content suggests coordination issues between authors",
    "overlap_note": "Complete duplication of draft-a2a-moqt-transport",
    "momentum_note": "Duplicate submission reduces momentum and creates confusion",
    "relevance_note": "Same high relevance but undermined by duplication issue",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-intellinode-cats-in-network-scheduling",
    "title": "IntelliNode: In-Network Intelligent Scheduling Extensions for CATS",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-intellinode-cats-in-network-scheduling/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.0,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces IntelliNode mechanism for AI-aware network scheduling using FPGA-enhanced switches. Creates closed-loop system for real-time tensor flow optimization and heterogeneous compute matching.",
    "novelty_note": "Innovative integration of FPGAs in network switches for AI workload optimization",
    "maturity_note": "Brief document with high-level architecture but limited implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Appears to be duplicate or very similar to draft-li-cats-intellinode-network-scheduling",
    "momentum_note": "Short length and potential duplication suggests coordination issues",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses important AI infrastructure optimization challenges",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhang-agent-gap-network",
    "title": "Problem Statement and Gap Analysis for Agent-enabled Mobile Core Network",
    "date": "2026-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-agent-gap-network/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.0,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft identifies problems and gaps in mobile core networks for supporting AI agent communication, focusing on changes in interaction content (multimodality), entities (agent-to-agent), and protocols (semantic understanding). It argues current networks are 'dumb pipelines' that need AI-native capabilities for agent communication scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses emerging AI agent networking needs but analysis is fairly general and high-level",
    "maturity_note": "Very early draft with many TBD sections, incomplete use cases, and missing technical details",
    "overlap_note": "References 3GPP TR 22.870 for AI Agent definitions but appears to be first IETF work specifically on agent-enabled mobile core networks",
    "momentum_note": "First version (-00) from China Unicom authors, no evidence of working group adoption or broader community engagement yet",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as it addresses fundamental networking infrastructure needs for AI agent deployment at mobile network scale",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-cui-ai-agent-task",
    "title": "Task-oriented Coordination Requirements for AI Agent Protocols",
    "date": "2026-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cui-ai-agent-task/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 3.0,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes requirements for standardized AI agent protocols to enable task-oriented coordination in multi-agent systems. It addresses the need for dynamic task discovery, negotiation, and context-aware scheduling across heterogeneous networking environments, focusing on scenarios where multiple AI agents must collaborate to complete complex tasks.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses emerging AI agent coordination needs but builds on established multi-agent system concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early draft with basic framework outlined but lacks detailed technical specifications and appears truncated",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general multi-agent coordination work but focuses specifically on AI agents in networking contexts",
    "momentum_note": "Authors from reputable institutions (Tsinghua University) but this appears to be initial version with limited development history",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to AI agent networking as it directly addresses coordination protocols for multi-agent AI systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-hong-nmrg-agenticai-ps",
    "title": "Motivations and Problem Statement of Agentic AI for network management",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hong-nmrg-agenticai-ps/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents problem statement and motivations for applying Agentic AI to network management. Emphasizes collaborative autonomous agents for fully automated network operations, management and security.",
    "novelty_note": "Frames existing agentic AI concepts within network management context with collaborative focus",
    "maturity_note": "Problem statement level document, lacks concrete technical solutions or protocols",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with autonomous network operations and AI agent coordination topics",
    "momentum_note": "NMRG venue appropriate, collaborative automation angle has potential interest",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to network automation trends and operator pain points",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhao-nmrg-ai-agent-for-dtn",
    "title": "AI Agent Architecture for DTN Digital Twin Network",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhao-nmrg-ai-agent-for-dtn/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes AI agent architecture for Digital Twin Networks, integrating autonomous agents at each DTN component level. Extends traditional DTN architecture for more intelligent and adaptive network management.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel combination of digital twin technology with AI agents for network management",
    "maturity_note": "Very brief at 7 pages, appears to be early conceptual stage",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with network digital twins and AI agent architectures",
    "momentum_note": "Niche combination of technologies may limit broader adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for advanced network management but digital twin adoption still emerging",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-fu-nmop-agent-communication-framework",
    "title": "Agent Communication Framework for Network AIOps",
    "date": "2026-01-25",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fu-nmop-agent-communication-framework/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes a multi-agent communication framework for network AIOps with AI gateway, Agent Name Service, and security features. Focuses on coordinating heterogeneous agents for intelligent network operations and maintenance.",
    "novelty_note": "Standard multi-agent coordination approach but network operations focus adds domain-specific value",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage framework with basic architectural components outlined but limited technical detail",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with other agent communication and discovery drafts in this set",
    "momentum_note": "Network operations domain has established interest but multi-agent approach is emerging",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as networks become more complex and autonomous operations gain traction",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-cui-dmsc-agent-cdi",
    "title": "Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework for AI Agent Collaboration",
    "date": "2026-02-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cui-dmsc-agent-cdi/",
    "pages": 34,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines comprehensive framework for cross-domain AI agent interoperability including identity federation and trust establishment. Enables multi-domain collaboration without centralized control.",
    "novelty_note": "Comprehensive approach to cross-domain agent interoperability combining multiple established concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Extensive framework but appears early stage with broad scope requiring significant development",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with authorization draft and touches on discovery/communication aspects",
    "momentum_note": "Cross-domain interoperability is important but complexity may limit adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses fundamental challenge for large-scale agent deployment across organizations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-leon-distributed-multi-signer",
    "title": "Distributed DNSSEC Multi-Signer Bootstrap",
    "date": "2025-08-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-leon-distributed-multi-signer/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines distributed DNSSEC multi-signer architecture with multi-signer agents and combiners. Introduces HSYNC RRtype and secure communication mechanisms between MSAs.",
    "novelty_note": "Extends existing DNSSEC multi-signer concepts with distributed approach",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 31-page specification with detailed technical mechanisms",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on RFC8901 multi-signer model but adds distributed aspects",
    "momentum_note": "DNSSEC automation has steady interest but limited to DNS community",
    "relevance_note": "Limited AI/agent relevance beyond DNS infrastructure automation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc6265bis",
    "title": "Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism",
    "date": "2025-12-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-rfc6265bis/",
    "pages": 62,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 5,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates HTTP Cookie specification to replace RFC 6265 with improved security and privacy. Addresses historical flaws while maintaining backward compatibility for widely-used web functionality.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement to existing well-established standard",
    "maturity_note": "Mature working group draft with extensive detail and broad industry review",
    "overlap_note": "Direct update to existing RFC, heavy overlap by design",
    "momentum_note": "Strong working group support and clear path to standardization",
    "relevance_note": "Foundational web technology but not specifically targeted at AI/agent scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yang-dmsc-ioa-task-protocol",
    "title": "Internet of Agents Task Protocol (IoA Task Protocol) for Heterogeneous Agent Collaboration",
    "date": "2026-01-29",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yang-dmsc-ioa-task-protocol/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a protocol for distributed collaboration among heterogeneous AI agents, enabling dynamic team formation and task coordination. Targets large-scale scenarios like intelligent transportation and smart healthcare across diverse network environments.",
    "novelty_note": "Reasonable novelty in agent task coordination, but builds on known distributed systems concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage with basic protocol definition, lacks implementation details and security considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with other IoA drafts in this set, particularly the semantic interaction draft",
    "momentum_note": "Part of emerging IoA standardization effort but unclear industry backing",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to growing AI agent ecosystem and multi-agent systems deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-condrey-rats-witnessd-enrollment",
    "title": "Trust Anchor Bootstrap Protocol for Proof of Process",
    "date": "2026-02-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-condrey-rats-witnessd-enrollment/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies trust anchor bootstrap protocol for proof of process framework. Defines device enrollment, key provisioning, and trust anchor validation across different deployment modes.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach combining device attestation with process verification",
    "maturity_note": "Early specification without widespread implementation or testing",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing device attestation and enrollment protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Limited visibility in IETF working groups, niche application area",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for secure agent deployment but specialized use case",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-pocero-authkem-ikr-edhoc",
    "title": "KEM-based Authentication for EDHOC in Initiator-Known Responder (IKR) Scenarios",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pocero-authkem-ikr-edhoc/",
    "pages": 26,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes a KEM-based authentication variant for EDHOC that optimizes for scenarios where the initiator knows the responder's credentials beforehand, reducing the handshake to three mandatory messages. It aims to provide signature-free post-quantum authentication while maintaining mutual authentication and forward secrecy in constrained environments.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty - builds incrementally on existing KEM-based EDHOC authentication with optimization for specific IKR scenarios",
    "maturity_note": "Early maturity - recent draft with limited field testing of the optimized three-message approach",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing EDHOC KEM authentication work, representing an optimization rather than fundamental innovation",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum - post-quantum cryptography adoption is growing but constrained environment deployment remains niche",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for IoT and constrained networks needing post-quantum security, though limited to specific IKR use cases",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-shi-moq-kvcache",
    "title": "KVCache over MoQT",
    "date": "2025-10-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-shi-moq-kvcache/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies transmission of LLM KVCache over MoQT for efficient reuse and bandwidth savings. Leverages publish/subscribe transport for local caching of inference state.",
    "novelty_note": "Practical application of MoQT to specific LLM caching needs",
    "maturity_note": "Short specification needing more detailed protocol definition",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with general MoQT and caching mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses clear efficiency need but limited scope",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for LLM inference optimization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yang-spring-sr-policy-intelligent-routing",
    "title": "Intelligent Routing Method of SR Policy",
    "date": "2025-06-15",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yang-spring-sr-policy-intelligent-routing/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes an intelligent routing method for SR Policy that uses network quality metrics to make routing decisions in MPLS and IPv6 environments. Extends existing SR Policy framework with quality-based path selection.",
    "novelty_note": "Quality-based routing exists; intelligence aspect appears to be basic metrics analysis",
    "maturity_note": "Builds on established SR Policy framework with reasonable technical depth",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with existing SR Policy and traffic engineering work",
    "momentum_note": "SPRING working group context provides some momentum but not clear broad support",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to current SPRING work and network optimization needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chen-tsvwg-high-speed-data-express",
    "title": "High speed data express in IP: Concept, Reference Architecture and Technologies",
    "date": "2025-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-tsvwg-high-speed-data-express/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes IP-based reference architecture for high-speed data transmission using 'one low and three high' technical system. Targets AI and super-computing services requiring wide-area massive data transfer.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel 'data express' concept with differentiated services, but builds on known IP principles",
    "maturity_note": "Conceptual stage with reference architecture, limited implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with traffic engineering, QoS, and high-performance networking drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Good timing for AI data needs, but faces competition from existing solutions",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant for AI workloads needing efficient wide-area data movement",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-keller-aipref-vocab",
    "title": "Proposal for an Opt-Out Vocabulary",
    "date": "2025-04-10",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-keller-aipref-vocab/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes standardized vocabulary for machine-readable opt-outs related to Text and Data Mining and AI training. Defines three key use cases with mechanism-agnostic approach for consistent interpretation.",
    "novelty_note": "Focuses specifically on opt-out mechanisms with clear use case categorization",
    "maturity_note": "Brief specification needs more detailed implementation guidance and examples",
    "overlap_note": "Substantial overlap with other aipref drafts but focuses specifically on opt-out scenarios",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses important consent mechanisms but competes with similar efforts",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to AI training governance and rights management debates",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-herbert-fast",
    "title": "Firewall and Service Tickets",
    "date": "2024-04-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-herbert-fast/",
    "pages": 24,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces Firewall and Service Tickets protocol for hosts to request network services and admission. Uses IPv6 Hop-by-Hop options to carry tickets that grant traversal rights or specify service requirements.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach to network admission control and service signaling using ticket-based system",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive but early-stage proposal, needs more implementation experience",
    "overlap_note": "Some conceptual overlap with network access control and QoS signaling mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission with limited broader community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Potentially relevant for zero-trust networking and service mesh architectures",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-happel-structured-email-trust",
    "title": "Trust and security considerations for Structured Email",
    "date": "2025-08-30",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-happel-structured-email-trust/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Provides trust and security recommendations for handling structured data in email messages. Focuses on guidance for message user agents to safely process structured email content.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses growing need for secure structured email handling but builds on existing email security concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Brief document suggests early stage development with basic recommendations framework",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general email security work but specific to structured data trust",
    "momentum_note": "Limited scope and length suggests modest community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant as structured email becomes more common, though narrow application domain",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ramakrishna-satp-data-sharing",
    "title": "Protocol for Requesting and Sharing Views across Networks",
    "date": "2025-09-15",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ramakrishna-satp-data-sharing/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a DLT-neutral protocol for sharing asset views and metadata across blockchain networks via gateway nodes. Enables cross-system interoperability while preserving native consensus mechanisms.",
    "novelty_note": "Builds on existing blockchain interoperability concepts but provides specific gateway protocol design",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured protocol definition but needs implementation validation and security analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with blockchain interoperability work but focused on specific data sharing use case",
    "momentum_note": "Limited community engagement evident, needs broader blockchain ecosystem adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for multi-chain environments but primarily traditional DLT rather than AI agents",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-bastian-jose-pkdh",
    "title": "Public Key Derived HMAC for JOSE",
    "date": "2025-11-04",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bastian-jose-pkdh/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a method to derive symmetric MAC keys from public information in JSON Web Signatures using Diffie-Hellman key agreement. This enables HMAC-based authentication without requiring pre-shared keys.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel approach combining DH-KA with JWS for MAC key derivation, though builds on established JOSE framework",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonably mature specification with clear technical approach, but needs more implementation experience",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing JOSE specifications but introduces new key derivation mechanism",
    "momentum_note": "Limited discussion and adoption visible in broader community",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for JSON-based security applications requiring dynamic key establishment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-miller-ssh-agent",
    "title": "SSH Agent Protocol",
    "date": "2024-11-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-miller-ssh-agent/",
    "pages": 24,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.95,
    "novelty": 1,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft documents the SSH agent protocol for secure key management. It provides standardization for an existing widely-used protocol.",
    "novelty_note": "Documents existing SSH agent protocol with minimal novelty",
    "maturity_note": "Well-established protocol with extensive real-world deployment",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing SSH specifications but fills documentation gap",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum as it standardizes existing practice",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for SSH ecosystem standardization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-roll-enrollment-priority",
    "title": "Controlling Secure Network Enrollment in RPL networks",
    "date": "2026-02-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-roll-enrollment-priority/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Provides mechanism for RPL Root to control enrollment announcements and adjust enrollment priorities in RPL networks. Extends existing RFC9032 enrollment proxy capabilities with centralized control.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental enhancement to existing RPL enrollment mechanisms",
    "maturity_note": "Mature, focused specification building on established RPL standards",
    "overlap_note": "Direct extension of RFC9032 with some overlap in enrollment control mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "Solid but incremental improvement to existing IoT networking capabilities",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for IoT agent enrollment scenarios but limited to RPL network contexts",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ahc-green-smartpdu-yang",
    "title": "A YANG Model for SmartPDU Monitoring and Control",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ahc-green-smartpdu-yang/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines YANG model for smart power distribution unit monitoring and control. Provides vendor-neutral framework developed during IETF hackathon for energy management.",
    "novelty_note": "Straightforward application of YANG to power management domain, incremental innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Has working implementation from hackathon but needs refinement for production use",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on SmartPDU YANG modeling with minimal overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Benefits from hackathon development and green networking interest",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to growing focus on network energy efficiency and sustainability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ounsworth-lamps-cms-dhkem",
    "title": "Use of the DH-Based KEM (DHKEM) in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)",
    "date": "2024-02-25",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ounsworth-lamps-cms-dhkem/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines mechanism to use DHKEM algorithm within CMS for one-pass key establishment. Wraps Ephemeral-Static DH and ECDH for KEM interfaces in cryptographic messaging.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty in adapting DHKEM for CMS, incremental improvement",
    "maturity_note": "Concise 8-page specification with clear technical approach",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing KEM work and CMS specifications",
    "momentum_note": "Part of established LAMPS working group efforts",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant for secure messaging but more focused on cryptographic infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhang-rtgwg-ai-agents-troubleshooting",
    "title": "Use Cases and Requirements of Communication Protocol for Troubleshooting Agents on Network Devices",
    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-rtgwg-ai-agents-troubleshooting/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft defines use cases and communication protocol requirements for troubleshooting agents deployed on network devices. It focuses on enabling distributed agents to collaboratively identify, diagnose, and resolve network issues across data center, campus, and IoT edge environments through standardized inter-agent communication.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies existing concepts like gRPC to agent-based troubleshooting but doesn't introduce fundamentally new protocol mechanisms",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft (-00) with basic structure but incomplete content, placeholder URLs, and truncated examples",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing network management protocols (NETCONF, RESTCONF) and telemetry standards, but focuses specifically on agent coordination",
    "momentum_note": "Multiple Huawei authors suggesting corporate backing, but no evidence of WG adoption or prior revisions yet",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to autonomous network operations trend, addressing key challenge of distributed agent coordination for network troubleshooting",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yl-agent-id-requirements",
    "title": "Digital Identity Management for AI Agent Communication Protocols",
    "date": "2026-01-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yl-agent-id-requirements/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes requirements for digital identity management in AI agent communication protocols, focusing on identifiers, attributes (skills, capabilities, services), authentication, authorization, and discovery mechanisms. It aims to establish a foundation for secure, interoperable communication between AI agents and other entities across different domains and providers.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies existing digital identity concepts to AI agents, which is relatively new but builds on established identity management principles",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft with incomplete sections, basic requirements definition, and limited technical detail or protocol specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with general digital identity management RFCs and potentially other AI agent communication drafts like draft-rosenberg-ai-protocols mentioned in references",
    "momentum_note": "China Mobile authors suggest some industry backing, but this appears to be version 00 with no evidence of working group adoption or broad community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as identity management is fundamental for secure AI agent interactions and will be critical as agents become more prevalent",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wang-nmrg-magent-im",
    "title": "A Protocol-agnostic Multiple Agents Interaction Model for Autonomous Network",
    "date": "2026-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-nmrg-magent-im/",
    "pages": 33,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes a protocol-agnostic data model for multi-agent communication in autonomous networks, enabling intelligent agents to coordinate across domains for tasks like fault management, service optimization, and user complaint handling. It aims to support Level 4 network autonomy through structured agent interaction patterns.",
    "novelty_note": "The specific focus on autonomous network operations with multi-agent coordination is relatively novel, though general multi-agent systems are well-established",
    "maturity_note": "This is version -00 with incomplete content (truncated), basic YANG model provided but limited implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing network management protocols (NETCONF, RESTCONF) and TMForum standards, but specific multi-agent coordination aspects are less covered",
    "momentum_note": "Authors from Huawei with network management background, but this is initial version with no WG adoption visible, dated 2025/2026 suggesting early stage",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to AI/agent networking as it directly addresses multi-agent coordination in network operations, a key area for autonomous network evolution",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-xie-ai-agent-multimodal",
    "title": "Multimodal Management Requirements for AI Agent Protocols",
    "date": "2026-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xie-ai-agent-multimodal/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft outlines requirements for multimodal communication in AI agent protocols, enabling agents to negotiate and exchange synchronized multimedia content including text, files, audio/video streams, and sensor data. It identifies gaps in existing agent protocols and proposes requirements for media channel establishment, multi-stream multiplexing, and synchronized multimodal data transmission.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies existing multimedia concepts to AI agents, but specific combination is moderately novel",
    "maturity_note": "Very early draft with basic requirements but lacks technical depth, protocol details, or implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing multimedia protocols (SIP, WebRTC, RTP) and references existing agent protocols (A2A, ANP, Agntcy)",
    "momentum_note": "Authors from established institution (CNIC, CAS) but this is version -00 with no clear working group adoption or revision history",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as multimodal capabilities are becoming critical for AI agents, especially with advancement of multimodal LLMs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-campbell-agentic-http",
    "title": "A Best Current Practice for Agentic Interactions over HTTP",
    "date": "2026-02-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-campbell-agentic-http/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes a Best Current Practice for AI agent interactions over HTTP, standardizing tool invocation via GET requests, stateless authentication, and formalizing the 402 Payment Required status code to enable a native economic layer for machine-to-machine transactions.",
    "novelty_note": "While HTTP-based agent interactions exist, the specific combination of GET-only tool calls and 402-based payment semantics is relatively novel",
    "maturity_note": "Early draft with some inconsistencies (document dates, RFC number vs draft status) and limited technical depth in key areas like security",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing HTTP authentication RFCs, OpenAPI specifications, and general REST API best practices, but focuses specifically on agent use cases",
    "momentum_note": "Single author from unknown organization, no indication of working group adoption, appears to be initial version with limited community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as it addresses a key challenge in AI agent networking - standardized communication patterns and economic transactions between agents",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chang-agent-context-interaction",
    "title": "Agent Context Interaction Optimizations",
    "date": "2026-02-13",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chang-agent-context-interaction/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines procedures for distributing context among multiple agents in complex workflows. Aims to optimize execution latency, token consumption, and task success rates.",
    "novelty_note": "Context distribution optimization is novel but builds on established multi-agent coordination concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Brief abstract and early stage development suggest limited technical depth",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with agent communication and workflow management concepts",
    "momentum_note": "Single author draft with minimal detail suggests limited momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Context management is crucial for practical multi-agent systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-cdn-node-selection-enhancement",
    "title": "CDN Node Selection Enhancement using Anycast and QUIC",
    "date": "2025-11-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-cdn-node-selection-enhancement/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes enhanced CDN node selection using anycast and QUIC for load-aware redirection. Enables dynamic route advertisement based on server load and client requirements.",
    "novelty_note": "Clever combination of anycast, BGP, and QUIC for dynamic CDN optimization",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage proposal with basic concepts outlined but needs detailed protocol specification",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing CDN and anycast technologies but offers novel integration approach",
    "momentum_note": "Limited visibility into industry adoption or working group interest",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to CDN performance optimization and modern application delivery",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-chen-nmrg-ibn-management",
    "title": "Network Management Intent -One of IBN Use Cases",
    "date": "2024-09-04",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-nmrg-ibn-management/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes an intent-based network management architecture with five levels of autonomous operation. Focuses on reducing complexity and achieving fully automated network management with humans out of the loop.",
    "novelty_note": "Intent-based networking concepts exist but specific five-level autonomous management framework shows some novelty",
    "maturity_note": "High-level architectural proposal lacking detailed technical specifications and implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with existing IBN and autonomous network management research",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission with limited apparent industry backing or working group adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to current trends in network automation and autonomous operations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mangrove-workgroup-mangrove",
    "title": "Mangrove: A Unified Framework for Internet Topology, Routing Abstraction, and Modeling",
    "date": "2024-09-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mangrove-workgroup-mangrove/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.9,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Mangrove proposes a unified framework for Internet topology and routing modeling by aggregating diverse data sources like traceroute, BGP, and allocation records. It constructs hierarchical representations to compute packet paths and performance metrics across geographic regions, autonomous systems, and IP prefixes.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel unified approach but builds on established topology mapping concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage with incomplete abstract and limited implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing topology discovery and routing analysis work",
    "momentum_note": "New workgroup with single draft, unclear community support",
    "relevance_note": "High relevance for network operations and autonomous network management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jain-lisp-network-ai-infra",
    "title": "LISP-Based Network for AI Infrastructure",
    "date": "2025-12-13",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jain-lisp-network-ai-infra/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Applies LISP control plane mechanisms to AI infrastructure supporting scale-up, scale-out, and scale-across deployments. Leverages existing LISP features for unified control plane across heterogeneous accelerator fabrics.",
    "novelty_note": "Application of existing LISP protocol to AI infrastructure use case",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive application document with detailed LISP mechanism usage",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy reliance on existing LISP specifications with AI-specific deployment patterns",
    "momentum_note": "Builds on established LISP foundation but AI infrastructure application is emerging",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for AI infrastructure needing unified control plane across diverse fabrics",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-anima-brski-prm",
    "title": "BRSKI with Pledge in Responder Mode (BRSKI-PRM)",
    "date": "2025-06-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-brski-prm/",
    "pages": 123,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Enhances BRSKI for device bootstrapping where pledges act as servers in responder mode. Introduces registrar-agent component for scenarios with limited registrar communication.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental enhancement to existing BRSKI protocol for specific deployment scenarios",
    "maturity_note": "Mature specification with detailed protocol mechanics and comprehensive coverage",
    "overlap_note": "Extends BRSKI but addresses distinct use case not covered by other AI agent drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Limited to specific BRSKI deployment scenarios but addresses real operational need",
    "relevance_note": "Low relevance to AI agents specifically, focused on general device bootstrapping",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-takagi-srta-trinity",
    "title": "SRTA and the Trinity Configuration: A Conceptual Architecture for Safe AGI Coordination",
    "date": "2025-09-14",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-takagi-srta-trinity/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 1,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "Policy/governance",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes SRTA architecture and Trinity Configuration for safe AGI coordination using theological analogy. Presents theoretical framework for superintelligence governance.",
    "novelty_note": "Highly novel theological approach to AI safety architecture",
    "maturity_note": "Very early conceptual work with limited technical specification",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach unlike any existing AI safety or coordination work",
    "momentum_note": "Speculative work with unclear practical implementation path",
    "relevance_note": "Important safety topic but too theoretical for current practical needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhul-intarea-bnc-up-specific-suboption",
    "title": "Broadband Network UP-Specific Information Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option",
    "date": "2026-02-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhul-intarea-bnc-up-specific-suboption/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a DHCP relay agent suboption for broadband networks to include UP-specific information. Ensures subscribers in the same SGRP under the same UP get IP addresses from consistent address spaces.",
    "novelty_note": "Standard DHCP extension with conventional approach",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined technical specification with clear implementation path",
    "overlap_note": "Specific to broadband DHCP scenarios, minimal overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses specific industry need but narrow scope",
    "relevance_note": "Limited to broadband network scenarios, not broadly applicable to AI/agents",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-fu-cats-flow-lb",
    "title": "Flow-Level Load Balancing of Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS)",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fu-cats-flow-lb/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies flow-level load balancing for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering to reduce control overhead. Enables data plane autonomous flow distribution for better resource utilization.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement to CATS with focus on autonomous data plane decisions",
    "maturity_note": "Brief document with limited technical depth and no evaluation",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing CATS and load balancing work",
    "momentum_note": "CATS is active area with strong industry interest",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for autonomous traffic management but narrowly focused",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-cats-intellinode-network-scheduling",
    "title": "IntelliNode: In-Network Intelligent Scheduling Extensions for CATS",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-cats-intellinode-network-scheduling/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 4,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 1,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces IntelliNode mechanism for AI-aware network scheduling using FPGA-enhanced switches. Creates closed-loop system for real-time tensor flow optimization and heterogeneous compute matching.",
    "novelty_note": "Innovative integration of FPGAs in network switches for AI workload optimization",
    "maturity_note": "Brief document with high-level architecture but limited implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Appears to be duplicate or very similar to draft-intellinode-cats-in-network-scheduling",
    "momentum_note": "Duplicate submission suggests poor coordination and low momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses important AI infrastructure optimization challenges",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mzhang-nfsv4-recursively-setting",
    "title": "Recursively Setting Attributes of Subdirectories and files",
    "date": "2025-04-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mzhang-nfsv4-recursively-setting/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends NFSv4 with server-side recursive attribute setting for directories and files. Applies near-data computing principles to reduce network overhead and improve efficiency.",
    "novelty_note": "Reasonable extension to NFSv4 server-side operations, follows established patterns",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed proposal with clear mechanism description and rationale",
    "overlap_note": "Extends existing NFS work but addresses specific new functionality",
    "momentum_note": "Useful optimization but incremental improvement to existing protocol",
    "relevance_note": "Limited AI/agent relevance, more of a general storage optimization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-pan-aqm-pie",
    "title": "PIE: A Lightweight Control Scheme To Address the Bufferbloat Problem",
    "date": "2024-12-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pan-aqm-pie/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "PIE is a lightweight queue management algorithm that addresses bufferbloat by controlling average queueing latency to reduce jitter and improve application performance. The design avoids per-packet timestamps making it suitable for both hardware and software implementation.",
    "novelty_note": "PIE is an established AQM algorithm, this appears to be documentation of existing work",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed with simulation results, theoretical analysis, and Linux testbed validation",
    "overlap_note": "Focused specifically on PIE algorithm without significant overlap with other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Active queue management remains relevant but PIE is already widely implemented",
    "relevance_note": "Traditional networking problem, not directly related to AI/ML agent systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-dtn-bpv7-admin-iana",
    "title": "Bundle Protocol Version 7 Administrative Record Types Registry",
    "date": "2025-01-17",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dtn-bpv7-admin-iana/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates Bundle Protocol Version 7 to clarify use of IANA registry for Administrative Record types. Reserves code points for private and experimental use.",
    "novelty_note": "Registry clarification rather than new protocol features",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined registry update with clear IANA considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Specific to Bundle Protocol administrative records",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group draft with focused scope",
    "relevance_note": "Limited to DTN Bundle Protocol implementations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-blahaj-grow-rpki-oauth",
    "title": "Attesting the Identities of Parties in OpenID Connect (OIDC) using the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)",
    "date": "2026-01-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-blahaj-grow-rpki-oauth/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies method to bind OpenID Connect authentication to ASN agents using RPKI infrastructure. Addresses authentication gaps in the GROW Working Group's Peering API.",
    "novelty_note": "Creative combination of RPKI and OIDC for network operator authentication",
    "maturity_note": "Brief draft with limited technical detail and implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach combining these specific technologies",
    "momentum_note": "Limited to specific peering use case with uncertain broader adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for network peering but narrow application scope",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-williams-http-bearer-extension",
    "title": "HTTP Bearer Auth Method Extensions",
    "date": "2025-12-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-williams-http-bearer-extension/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Improves HTTP Bearer authentication with automatic token fetching from STS. Eliminates need for PKCE and simplifies user-agent token management.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement to existing Bearer auth with automation",
    "maturity_note": "Focused 16-page specification with clear HTTP integration",
    "overlap_note": "Extends existing Bearer auth and OIDC patterns",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission without clear working group support",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for agent authentication but primarily traditional web auth",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-templin-6man-mla",
    "title": "IPv6 Addresses for Ad Hoc Networks",
    "date": "2026-02-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-6man-mla/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.85,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces Multilink Local Address (MLA) type for autonomous IPv6 addressing in ad hoc networks. Enables topology-independent addressing when traditional delegation services are unavailable.",
    "novelty_note": "New IPv6 address type for specific ad hoc networking scenarios",
    "maturity_note": "Moderate complexity solution with clear problem statement but individual submission",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with other IPv6 addressing schemes for mobile/ad hoc scenarios",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission without clear working group momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Moderate relevance for ad hoc networking scenarios, niche but legitimate use case",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-lake-edhoc-impl-cons",
    "title": "Implementation Considerations for Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lake-edhoc-impl-cons/",
    "pages": 45,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.8,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Provides implementation guidance for EDHOC authenticated key exchange protocol. Offers practical considerations for deploying EDHOC in constrained environments.",
    "novelty_note": "Implementation guidance document, not introducing new protocols but providing practical advice",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive 43-page implementation guide from established working group",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with other EDHOC-related drafts in this set",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum as supporting document for EDHOC adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant for constrained device implementations and IoT scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-abaris-aicdh",
    "title": "AI Content Disclosure Header",
    "date": "2026-01-30",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-abaris-aicdh/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.8,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes HTTP header for disclosing AI-generated content in web responses. Provides machine-readable metadata for user agents and archiving systems.",
    "novelty_note": "Straightforward application of HTTP headers to AI content disclosure",
    "maturity_note": "Clear specification but limited scope and technical complexity",
    "overlap_note": "Some similarity to content-type headers but AI-specific application is unique",
    "momentum_note": "Simple enough for quick adoption but may face policy/governance debates",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant for AI transparency but peripheral to core networking concerns",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-httpbis-layered-cookies",
    "title": "Cookies: HTTP State Management Mechanism",
    "date": "2025-11-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-layered-cookies/",
    "pages": 46,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.8,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates HTTP cookie specification replacing RFC 6265. Maintains existing widely-deployed cookie functionality while addressing historical security and privacy issues.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement to existing standard rather than new functionality",
    "maturity_note": "IETF working group draft with 46 pages of detailed specification",
    "overlap_note": "Direct replacement/update of existing RFC 6265",
    "momentum_note": "Active IETF working group with clear standardization path",
    "relevance_note": "Traditional web technology, limited relevance to AI/agent systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-serafin-lake-ta-hint",
    "title": "Trust Anchor Hints in Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)",
    "date": "2025-04-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-serafin-lake-ta-hint/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.8,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines trust anchor hint format for EDHOC protocol to help identify trusted third parties. Provides optimization for certificate chain discovery in constrained environments.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement to existing EDHOC protocol, addressing practical deployment issue",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage but builds on solid EDHOC foundation",
    "overlap_note": "Specific to EDHOC, minimal overlap with other trust anchor mechanisms",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum tied to EDHOC adoption in IoT",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for IoT security but limited scope",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-du-ai-agent-communication-6g-aspect",
    "title": "Use Cases and Requirements of AI Agent Communication from 6G Aspect",
    "date": "2026-01-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-du-ai-agent-communication-6g-aspect/",
    "pages": 20,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.8,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes requirements and frameworks for AI Agent Communication Networks (ACN) in 6G systems, focusing on agent-to-agent communication across domains. It introduces use cases for AI agent collaboration, grouping mechanisms, and both centralized and decentralized communication frameworks to enable interoperability between AI agents from different organizations.",
    "novelty_note": "Combines 6G networking perspective with AI agent communication, but core concepts of multi-agent systems and service discovery are well-established",
    "maturity_note": "Early draft with incomplete sections (text cuts off mid-sentence), limited technical depth, and appears to be first version (-00)",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps significantly with existing multi-agent system protocols, service discovery mechanisms, and the referenced draft-rosenberg-ai-protocols on AI agent protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Single author from China Mobile, no evidence of working group adoption, first version suggests limited community engagement so far",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant as it addresses core challenge of inter-domain AI agent communication and proposes concrete network architectures for agent collaboration",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-song-oauth-ai-agent-authorization",
    "title": "OAuth2.0 Extention for AI Agent: Authorization on Target",
    "date": "2026-01-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-song-oauth-ai-agent-authorization/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.8,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes an extension to OAuth 2.0 that adds a 'target_id' field to enable granular authorization for AI agents and AI models deployed on clients. The extension aims to distinguish between the client device and specific AI components for better security, traceability, and compliance with regulations like GDPR.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses a legitimate gap in OAuth for AI agents, but the solution is a straightforward parameter addition rather than a fundamental innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Draft appears incomplete (text cuts off mid-sentence), has numerous spelling/grammar errors, and lacks detailed technical specifications and examples",
    "overlap_note": "Heavily overlaps with draft-oauth-ai-agents-on-behalf-of-user which it references, and builds incrementally on existing OAuth 2.0 framework",
    "momentum_note": "First version (00) from Huawei authors, no evidence of working group adoption, and quality issues suggest limited momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses authorization challenges for AI agents which is increasingly important as AI systems become more autonomous and distributed",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-sshm-ssh-agent",
    "title": "SSH Agent Protocol",
    "date": "2026-03-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sshm-ssh-agent/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.8,
    "novelty": 1,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft specifies the SSH Agent Protocol for managing cryptographic keys used in SSH authentication. It standardizes an existing de-facto protocol that allows SSH clients to interact with key management agents to perform cryptographic operations without directly exposing private keys.",
    "novelty_note": "This is standardization of an existing widely-deployed protocol, not novel work",
    "maturity_note": "Version 16 draft with extensive implementation history and broad deployment",
    "overlap_note": "Builds on SSH core RFCs (4251-4254) but addresses previously unstandardized agent protocol",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group adoption, mature revision number, from established SSH implementer",
    "relevance_note": "While about 'agents', this is cryptographic key agents for SSH, not AI agents",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jiang-cats-reference-acn",
    "title": "CATS Reference Model for AI-Agent Communication Network",
    "date": "2026-01-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jiang-cats-reference-acn/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.8,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends CATS framework to support AI-agent Communication Networks with reference architecture. Defines protocol stacks and signaling for agent-to-agent communication services.",
    "novelty_note": "Extends existing CATS work to AI agent domain with new reference model",
    "maturity_note": "High-level reference model lacking detailed protocol specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Builds heavily on existing CATS framework with agent-specific extensions",
    "momentum_note": "Benefits from existing CATS momentum but limited to that community",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for CATS community but narrow focus on specific architecture",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yang-nmrg-mcp-nm",
    "title": "Applicability of MCP for the Network Management",
    "date": "2026-02-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yang-nmrg-mcp-nm/",
    "pages": 19,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.8,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Applies Model Context Protocol (MCP) to network management for AI integration. Discusses network exposure, MCP server discovery, and communication between network elements and controllers.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty in applying MCP to network management, but builds on established concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft with broad scope but limited concrete technical details",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with other MCP network management drafts in this set",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum indicated by single draft and broad approach",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to AI-driven network operations and autonomous networking",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-dnsop-ds-automation",
    "title": "Operational Recommendations for DS Automation",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-ds-automation/",
    "pages": 25,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 4,
    "relevance": 1,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Provides operational recommendations for automated DS parameter acceptance in DNS. Addresses technical decisions around validation checks and multi-party coordination.",
    "novelty_note": "Operational guidance for existing standards rather than new technical innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Mature operational guidance from working group with practical focus",
    "overlap_note": "Specific to DNS operations with no overlap with AI/agent work",
    "momentum_note": "Working group draft with clear operational need and community support",
    "relevance_note": "DNS-specific operational guidance, not relevant to AI/agent protocols",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-hackett-ures",
    "title": "Unified Rendering of Email Standard (URES)",
    "date": "2026-01-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hackett-ures/",
    "pages": 23,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies requirements for uniform HTML email rendering across mail clients, addressing inconsistencies in HTML/CSS interpretation. Covers dark mode, embedded assets, positioning, and secure SVG rendering while maintaining MIME compatibility.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses known email rendering problems but approach is incremental rather than novel",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed specification with clear requirements and backwards compatibility considerations",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing email standards but addresses specific rendering gaps",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses real industry pain points which could drive adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Not directly AI/agent related, more focused on traditional email client interoperability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mpsb-agntcy-slim",
    "title": "Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging (SLIM)",
    "date": "2026-02-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mpsb-agntcy-slim/",
    "pages": 17,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies SLIM protocol for real-time interactive AI applications, combining gRPC over HTTP/2/3 with MLS for secure messaging. Designed as transport layer for agent protocols like A2A and MCP with native RPC semantics.",
    "novelty_note": "Combines existing technologies (gRPC, MLS) in AI-specific way but limited fundamental innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Good technical specification but builds heavily on existing protocols without clear differentiation",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with gRPC, HTTP/2-3, and MLS work; incremental addition for AI use case",
    "momentum_note": "Appears vendor-driven with limited broader community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for agent communication but unclear advantage over existing gRPC+MLS combinations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yusef-lamps-rfc7030-renewal-recommendation",
    "title": "Certificate Renewal Recommendations for Enrollment over Secure Transport",
    "date": "2026-01-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yusef-lamps-rfc7030-renewal-recommendation/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends EST protocol to provide certificate renewal timing recommendations from CA to end-entity devices. Addresses issues with traditional 50% lifetime renewal approach.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental extension addressing practical deployment issue",
    "maturity_note": "Concise 7-page draft addressing specific operational need",
    "overlap_note": "Specific EST extension with minimal overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission with limited visibility",
    "relevance_note": "Useful for automated certificate lifecycle management",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-xu-rtgwg-fare-in-sun",
    "title": "Fully Adaptive Routing Ethernet in Scale-Up Networks",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xu-rtgwg-fare-in-sun/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends WECMP load balancing for AI scale-up networks supporting MoE architectures. Adapts existing scale-out network techniques for high-throughput, low-latency GPU interconnection.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental extension of existing WECMP to different network topology",
    "maturity_note": "Brief document with basic concept description, lacks detailed protocol mechanisms",
    "overlap_note": "Builds heavily on existing WECMP mechanisms with AI-specific application",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses practical AI infrastructure needs but limited technical depth",
    "relevance_note": "Very relevant to current AI training infrastructure requirements for MoE models",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jaju-httpbis-zstd-window-size",
    "title": "Window Sizing for Zstandard Content Encoding",
    "date": "2024-06-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jaju-httpbis-zstd-window-size/",
    "pages": 4,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 5,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates RFC8878 to make window size limits for Zstandard compression a requirement rather than recommendation. Addresses browser interoperability issues.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental update to existing standard addressing known interoperability issue",
    "maturity_note": "Mature, focused fix to specific technical problem with clear implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Direct update to existing RFC8878 with minimal scope changes",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses real deployment issues but limited scope for broader impact",
    "relevance_note": "Important for HTTP compression but not directly related to AI/agent protocols",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhang-rtgwg-ai-agents-measurement",
    "title": "Use Cases and Requirements of Communication Protocol for Measurement Agents on Network Devices",
    "date": "2025-11-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-rtgwg-ai-agents-measurement/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines use cases and requirements for communication protocols enabling measurement agents on network devices. Focuses on network monitoring and telemetry collection through AI agents.",
    "novelty_note": "Moderate novelty in applying agent paradigm to network measurement",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft with basic requirements definition",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general network telemetry protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum, appears to be initial exploration",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for network operations but narrow scope",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-dmsc-gw-requirements",
    "title": "Gateway Requirements for Dynamic Multi-agents Secured Collaboration",
    "date": "2026-01-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-dmsc-gw-requirements/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines requirements for gateways in multi-agent systems to improve scalability and security. Identifies gaps in current gateway solutions for agent collaboration.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies gateway concepts to agent systems with some novel requirements",
    "maturity_note": "Requirements document without protocol specification or implementation",
    "overlap_note": "Complements DMSC architecture draft, minimal overlap with existing gateway specs",
    "momentum_note": "Limited scope may restrict broader community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant for agent system scaling, but more specialized use case",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-jurkovikj-collab-tunnel",
    "title": "The Collaboration Tunnel Protocol (TCT)",
    "date": "2025-11-14",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jurkovikj-collab-tunnel/",
    "pages": 38,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines an HTTP-based protocol for efficient delivery of web content to automated agents using bidirectional URL discovery and content fingerprinting. Focuses on bandwidth reduction while preserving canonical URLs through conditional requests and ETags.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel combination of bidirectional discovery and template-invariant fingerprinting, but builds on established HTTP caching concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage with limited implementation details and unclear real-world validation",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with web caching and content delivery protocols but unique agent-focused approach",
    "momentum_note": "Single author draft with no clear industry backing or implementation momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses legitimate need for efficient agent-web interaction but limited scope compared to broader AI agent challenges",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-verma-dmsc-nlip-notes",
    "title": "Use of Natural Language for Agent Communication",
    "date": "2026-02-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-verma-dmsc-nlip-notes/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes using generative AI to create flexible communication protocols for agent-to-agent interactions, replacing strict APIs with natural language-based communication. Aims to solve API explosion and interoperability challenges through a uniform AI-mediated interface.",
    "novelty_note": "Natural language for agent communication is novel but conceptually straightforward",
    "maturity_note": "Very early stage with limited technical detail and no concrete protocol specification",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with other agent communication drafts but unique NL approach",
    "momentum_note": "Single author, short document suggests limited community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses real interoperability problems but approach may be premature",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhang-rtgwg-llmmoe-multicast",
    "title": "Multicast usage in LLM MoE",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-rtgwg-llmmoe-multicast/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes multicast use cases in Large Language Model Mixture of Experts architectures, particularly for token dispatching. Attempts to identify networking opportunities in LLM MoE systems.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of multicast to LLM MoE, but analysis appears preliminary",
    "maturity_note": "Very early stage with limited technical depth at 7 pages",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with ML traffic management concepts but unique multicast focus",
    "momentum_note": "Recent draft but narrow scope may limit broader interest",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to networking optimization for LLM inference but very specific use case",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-lenders-core-dnr",
    "title": "Discovery of Network-designated OSCORE-based Resolvers: Problem Statement",
    "date": "2026-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lenders-core-dnr/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Identifies problems in designing DNS SVCB records for OSCORE endpoint discovery. Addresses challenges in discovering CoAP servers and DNS resolvers using OSCORE encryption.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel problem identification in DNS service discovery for OSCORE environments",
    "maturity_note": "Early-stage problem statement document, only 12 pages without solutions",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on DNS discovery for OSCORE, limited overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Lower momentum as problem statement without proposed solutions",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for CoAP and constrained network service discovery",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-bastian-jose-dvs",
    "title": "Public Key Derived HMAC for JOSE",
    "date": "2025-10-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bastian-jose-dvs/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines deriving HMAC keys from public key information in JOSE using Diffie-Hellman key agreement. Enables symmetric MAC authentication from public key operations.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel combination of DH-KA with JOSE for MAC derivation",
    "maturity_note": "Brief specification needs more detail and security analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Unique approach to JOSE authentication enhancement",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum, niche application area",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for web security and authentication protocols",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-rtgwg-mdt-in-high-bdp",
    "title": "Use Cases and Requirements of Massive Data Transmission(MDT) in High Bandwidth-delay Product (BDP) Network",
    "date": "2025-10-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-rtgwg-mdt-in-high-bdp/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes a framework for massive data transmission in high bandwidth-delay networks using nighttime idle capacity. Introduces terminal-driven parameter optimization for applications like same-day delivery services.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of terminal-driven optimization for massive data transfers, though builds on existing traffic engineering concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage work with basic architecture outlined but lacks detailed technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing traffic engineering and QoS work but focuses on specific MDT use case",
    "momentum_note": "Limited adoption signals, appears to be early exploratory work from single organization",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses real need for efficient bulk data transfer but may be too application-specific for IETF",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wang-lisp-ai-agent",
    "title": "Using LISP as a Network Substrate for AI Agent Communication",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-lisp-ai-agent/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.75,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Explores using LISP protocol as network substrate for AI agent communication. Addresses location transparency, mobility, and multi-homing for distributed AI systems.",
    "novelty_note": "Interesting application of existing LISP technology to AI agent networking",
    "maturity_note": "Conceptual work at 9 pages, needs more technical development",
    "overlap_note": "Leverages LISP but applies it to new AI agent domain",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum, appears exploratory",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant for AI agent infrastructure needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhao-ccamp-actn-optical-network-agent",
    "title": "Integration of Network Management Agent (NMA) into ACTN-Based Optical Network",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhao-ccamp-actn-optical-network-agent/",
    "pages": 18,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Integrates Network Management Agents into ACTN-based optical networks for autonomous operations. Extends ACTN architecture with AI capabilities for optical network management.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies NMA concept to specific optical network domain with ACTN",
    "maturity_note": "Early architectural proposal with limited technical depth",
    "overlap_note": "Builds heavily on companion NMA draft and existing ACTN work",
    "momentum_note": "Optical networks seeking automation but AI integration still emerging",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for optical network operators but narrow domain focus",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-gaikwad-llm-benchmarking-terminology",
    "title": "Benchmarking Terminology for Large Language Model Serving",
    "date": "2026-01-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gaikwad-llm-benchmarking-terminology/",
    "pages": 54,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.7,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Establishes standardized terminology for LLM serving performance metrics across different system types. Focuses purely on vocabulary definition without prescribing methodologies.",
    "novelty_note": "Terminology standardization is incremental but necessary foundational work",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive terminology coverage but limited technical depth as terminology-only document",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general performance measurement standards but LLM-specific",
    "momentum_note": "Industry need exists but terminology docs typically have lower adoption momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Useful for industry standardization but indirect impact on technical deployment",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhul-dhc-bnc-up-specific-suboption",
    "title": "Broadband Network UP-Specific Information Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option",
    "date": "2026-01-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhul-dhc-bnc-up-specific-suboption/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.7,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a DHCP relay agent suboption for broadband networks to include UP-specific information. Ensures subscribers in the same SGRP under the same UP get IP addresses from the same address space.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental extension to existing DHCP relay mechanisms for specific broadband use case",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined technical specification with clear implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Unique DHCP extension, no significant overlap with other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Narrow telecom-specific use case with limited broader appeal",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to broadband operators but limited connection to AI/agent themes",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-moonesamy-rfc2369bis",
    "title": "The Use of URIs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields",
    "date": "2024-12-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-moonesamy-rfc2369bis/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.7,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates RFC 2369 to define standardized email header fields for mailing list commands like subscribe, unsubscribe, and help. Enables mail clients to provide automated tools for common mailing list operations.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental update to existing RFC with minor refinements",
    "maturity_note": "Well-established concept being refined, clear specification",
    "overlap_note": "Unique update to specific RFC, no overlap with other drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Limited community interest in mailing list standards",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to email systems but not AI/agent focused",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-moonesamy-rfc2919bis",
    "title": "List-Id: A Structured Field and Namespace for the Identification of Mailing Lists",
    "date": "2024-12-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-moonesamy-rfc2919bis/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.7,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Updates RFC 2919 to define the List-Id header field for uniquely identifying mailing lists. Provides namespace based on domain names to ensure global uniqueness.",
    "novelty_note": "Standard maintenance update with minimal new concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Mature specification being updated, well-defined scope",
    "overlap_note": "Companion to RFC 2369bis but addresses different aspect",
    "momentum_note": "Limited broader community engagement expected",
    "relevance_note": "Email infrastructure relevant but not AI/agent specific",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ma-v6ops-pe-ipv6only-reqs",
    "title": "Requirements for Provider Edge in IPv6-only Underlay Networks",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ma-v6ops-pe-ipv6only-reqs/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.7,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines requirements for Provider Edge devices in IPv6-only underlay networks supporting multi-domain operations. Focuses on service delivery and interoperability while providing IPv4-as-a-Service capabilities.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental work on IPv6-only deployment scenarios, building on existing PE requirements",
    "maturity_note": "Requirements document with clear scope but needs implementation validation",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with existing IPv6 transition and PE requirements drafts",
    "momentum_note": "IPv6-only deployments gaining traction but not urgent priority",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for service providers transitioning to IPv6-only infrastructure",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zeng-mcp-network-mgmt",
    "title": "Model Context Protocol (MCP) Extensions for Network Equipment Management",
    "date": "2025-10-16",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zeng-mcp-network-mgmt/",
    "pages": 7,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.7,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies MCP extensions for network equipment management allowing routers/switches as MCP servers. Defines capability tokens, tools, and error codes with backward compatibility.",
    "novelty_note": "Similar approach to network MCP extensions as other drafts in this area",
    "maturity_note": "Lower maturity with brief specification and limited technical detail",
    "overlap_note": "Extremely heavy overlap with draft-zw-rtgwg-mcp-network-mgmt, nearly identical",
    "momentum_note": "Lower momentum due to brevity and potential duplication with other efforts",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for AI-driven network management despite overlap issues",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-gont-dhcwg-dhcpv6-iids",
    "title": "A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque IPv6 Interface Identifiers (IIDs) with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)",
    "date": "2025-08-14",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gont-dhcwg-dhcpv6-iids/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.65,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes method for generating semantically opaque IPv6 interface identifiers in DHCPv6. Adapts RFC 7217 SLAAC method for DHCPv6 server-side address assignment.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental extension of existing RFC 7217 method to DHCPv6 context",
    "maturity_note": "Well-developed specification building on proven RFC 7217 foundation",
    "overlap_note": "Directly builds upon RFC 7217 and existing DHCPv6 specifications",
    "momentum_note": "Established author with IETF track record, addresses known privacy issue",
    "relevance_note": "Traditional networking protocol with minimal direct AI/agent relevance",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-song-rtgwg-din-usecases-requirements",
    "title": "Distributed Inference Network (DIN) Problem Statement, Use Cases, and Requirements",
    "date": "2026-02-28",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-song-rtgwg-din-usecases-requirements/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.65,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines problem statement and requirements for Distributed Inference Networks addressing scalability and latency challenges. Focuses on edge-cloud collaboration for AI inference services.",
    "novelty_note": "Problem statement document rather than novel technical solution",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage requirements document without concrete solutions",
    "overlap_note": "Substantial overlap with other distributed inference problem statements",
    "momentum_note": "Good problem articulation but needs follow-up solution drafts",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant for distributed AI infrastructure planning",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-xiong-rtgwg-requirements-hp-wan",
    "title": "Requirements for High-performance Wide Area Networks",
    "date": "2025-01-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xiong-rtgwg-requirements-hp-wan/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.65,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines requirements for high-performance wide area networks to support massive data transmission between data centers. Focuses on ensuring data integrity and stable transmission for big data and intelligent computing applications.",
    "novelty_note": "Basic requirements document for high-performance WAN, covers well-known needs",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage requirements draft, lacks detailed technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing WAN optimization and data center interconnect work",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses current AI/big data needs but competes with established solutions",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to AI workloads requiring massive data movement between data centers",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wang-ppm-ecdh-psi",
    "title": "PSI based on ECDH",
    "date": "2025-08-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-ppm-ecdh-psi/",
    "pages": 31,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.65,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft specifies ECDH-based Private Set Intersection (PSI) for two parties using elliptic curve cryptography and the Meadows protocol. It enables participants to find common records while preserving privacy of non-intersecting elements.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies well-known ECDH techniques to PSI with standard elliptic curves - incremental but solid engineering",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonable technical depth for IETF draft with concrete protocol specification, though some implementation details may need refinement",
    "overlap_note": "PSI is established research area but ECDH-specific variant for IETF standardization has limited direct overlap",
    "momentum_note": "Privacy-preserving computation gaining interest but unclear if this specific approach has strong industry backing",
    "relevance_note": "Privacy-preserving set intersection has legitimate use cases in federated learning and data sharing scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-dunbar-onions-ac-te-applicability",
    "title": "Applying Attachmet Circuit and Traffic Engineering YANG Data Model to Edge AI Use Case",
    "date": "2025-10-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-onions-ac-te-applicability/",
    "pages": 25,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.65,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Explores applying existing YANG data models for attachment circuits and traffic engineering to edge AI placement. Evaluates model applicability for dynamic AI inference location selection.",
    "novelty_note": "Application of existing models rather than new protocol development",
    "maturity_note": "Practical exercise with concrete use case but limited to existing tools",
    "overlap_note": "Unique application of YANG models to AI edge placement",
    "momentum_note": "Limited scope as applicability study rather than new solution",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant for edge AI deployment optimization",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-sarischo-6gip-aiagent-requirements",
    "title": "AI Agents for 6G Requirements and Implementation Approaches",
    "date": "2025-09-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sarischo-6gip-aiagent-requirements/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.65,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines requirements for AI/ML agents in 6G mobile networks, covering different agent types and their specific needs. Describes implementation approaches including API discovery and DNS-based agent discovery mechanisms.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies existing AI agent concepts to 6G context with some novel DNS discovery approaches",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft with basic requirements enumeration, lacks detailed technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with general AI agent frameworks but focuses specifically on 6G domain",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum, niche 6G focus may restrict broader IETF interest",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for telecom industry moving toward 6G, moderate relevance for general networking",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mpsb-agntcy-messaging",
    "title": "An Overview of Messaging Systems and Their Applicability to Agentic AI",
    "date": "2026-02-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mpsb-agntcy-messaging/",
    "pages": 20,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.65,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Analyzes messaging protocols for agentic AI systems, comparing AMQP, MQTT, NATS, Kafka and others across security and performance dimensions. Introduces AGNTCY SLIM as a purpose-built solution with MLS integration for quantum-safe agent communication.",
    "novelty_note": "Useful comparative analysis but AGNTCY SLIM appears to be proprietary solution being promoted",
    "maturity_note": "More of a survey document than a protocol specification; lacks detailed technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing messaging protocol work and MLS standardization efforts",
    "momentum_note": "Unclear industry support for AGNTCY SLIM; appears vendor-driven",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses real need for agent messaging but focuses heavily on promoting specific proprietary solution",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhao-nmrg-ai-agent-for-ndt",
    "title": "AI Agent Architecture for Network Digital Twin",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhao-nmrg-ai-agent-for-ndt/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.65,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes AI agent architecture for Network Digital Twin systems. Integrates AI agents with digital twin technology for network management.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel combination of AI agents with network digital twin concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage work with limited technical depth at 8 pages",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing digital twin and AI networking research",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum, appears to be early research work",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant to emerging AI-driven network operations",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-bernardos-anima-fog-monitoring",
    "title": "Autonomic setup of fog monitoring agents",
    "date": "2024-01-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bernardos-anima-fog-monitoring/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.65,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes using GRASP for autonomic setup of monitoring agents in dynamic fog computing environments. Addresses the challenge of managing volatile, heterogeneous fog resources through self-configuring monitoring infrastructure.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies existing autonomic networking concepts to fog monitoring, reasonable novelty in the specific use case",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft with basic framework outlined but lacks detailed protocol specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general autonomic networking and GRASP usage patterns",
    "momentum_note": "Limited recent activity, fog computing adoption has been slower than anticipated",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for IoT and edge computing scenarios where dynamic resource management is needed",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-he-yi-srv6ops-ipv6-enhancemnet-in-cloud-uc",
    "title": "Use Cases and Requirements for IPv6 enhancement techniques in cloud.",
    "date": "2024-07-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-he-yi-srv6ops-ipv6-enhancemnet-in-cloud-uc/",
    "pages": 4,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.65,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Outlines use cases for IPv6 enhancement techniques in cloud environments. Proposes Virtual Incloud Router as agent for end-to-end IPv6 capabilities.",
    "novelty_note": "Combines existing IPv6 enhancement with cloud integration",
    "maturity_note": "Use case document with spelling errors and unclear requirements",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with SRv6 and cloud networking work",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission with limited recent updates",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to cloud-network integration trends",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yu-dmsc-ai-agent-use-cases-in-6g",
    "title": "AI Agent Use Cases and Requirements in 6G Network",
    "date": "2026-01-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yu-dmsc-ai-agent-use-cases-in-6g/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.6,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Introduces AI agent use cases in 6G networks based on 3GPP SA1 technical reports. Elaborates on operator requirements for AI agent integration.",
    "novelty_note": "Largely references existing 3GPP work, limited novel contribution beyond compilation",
    "maturity_note": "Decent compilation of use cases but heavily dependent on external specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with 3GPP work and general 6G AI discussions",
    "momentum_note": "Benefits from 3GPP backing but unclear IETF-specific value proposition",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for 6G context but limited broader applicability beyond telecom",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-irtf-nmrg-ai-deploy",
    "title": "Considerations of network/system for AI services",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-nmrg-ai-deploy/",
    "pages": 26,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.6,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Outlines network and system configuration for distributed AI inference services across edge and cloud environments. Covers deployment considerations and use cases for network-based AI services.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement over earlier version but still lacks specific technical innovations",
    "maturity_note": "Better written than earlier version, under IRTF umbrella suggests more formal review",
    "overlap_note": "Very similar to draft-hong-nmrg-ai-deploy, appears to be refined version",
    "momentum_note": "IRTF adoption suggests institutional support and continued development",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant distributed AI deployment guidance, though at high architectural level",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-xiong-rtgwg-use-cases-hp-wan",
    "title": "Use Cases for High-performance Wide Area Network",
    "date": "2025-01-03",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xiong-rtgwg-use-cases-hp-wan/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.6,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes use cases for High-performance Wide Area Networks driven by big data and intelligent computing demands. Focuses on applications requiring massive data transmission across WAN and MAN.",
    "novelty_note": "Low novelty - high-performance networking use cases are well-documented",
    "maturity_note": "Moderate maturity - use case document is appropriately scoped but could be more detailed",
    "overlap_note": "High overlap - many existing high-performance networking specifications and use cases",
    "momentum_note": "Moderate momentum - big data networking remains important but not revolutionary",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for data center interconnect and cloud providers, moderate broader applicability",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-nsiangani-authenticatedsecuredlayer",
    "title": "ASL Authenticated Secure Layer Protocol",
    "date": "2026-02-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nsiangani-authenticatedsecuredlayer/",
    "pages": 63,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.6,
    "novelty": 5,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 1,
    "relevance": 1,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes ASL protocol using novel phi-ns-x arithmetic primitive instead of traditional crypto. Claims security through non-linear modular arithmetic and combinatorial complexity.",
    "novelty_note": "Completely novel cryptographic approach abandoning all established primitives",
    "maturity_note": "Unproven cryptographic claims without peer review or security analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Entirely different approach from any existing security protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission with no working group support or adoption signals",
    "relevance_note": "Very low relevance due to unvetted crypto and lack of security foundation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yang-srv6ops-intelligent-routing",
    "title": "Intelligent Routing Method of SR Policy",
    "date": "2025-06-30",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yang-srv6ops-intelligent-routing/",
    "pages": 12,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.6,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Autonomous netops"
    ],
    "summary": "Nearly identical to the SPRING SR Policy draft but focused on SRv6 operations. Describes intelligent routing method for SR Policy based on network quality metrics.",
    "novelty_note": "Appears to be duplicate content of spring draft with minor SRv6 focus",
    "maturity_note": "Similar technical maturity to spring version, builds on established SR foundations",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with the corresponding SPRING draft and existing SRv6 work",
    "momentum_note": "Potential duplication issues may harm adoption prospects",
    "relevance_note": "SRv6 operations are highly relevant but duplication reduces value",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-meyerzuselha-oauth-web-message-response-mode",
    "title": "OAuth 2.0 Web Message Response Mode for Popup- and Iframe-based Authorization Flows",
    "date": "2025-11-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-meyerzuselha-oauth-web-message-response-mode/",
    "pages": 16,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.55,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Extends OAuth 2.0 with a web message response mode using postMessage API for popup and iframe-based authorization flows. Targets browser-based applications needing secondary window authorization.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental extension to existing OAuth 2.0 framework using well-established postMessage patterns",
    "maturity_note": "Well-defined specification building on mature OAuth 2.0 foundation with clear implementation path",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing OAuth 2.0 response modes and browser-based authentication flows",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses practical OAuth implementation need but limited to specific use case",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to AI agents requiring web-based authentication but not AI-specific innovation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-romm-aipref-contentsignals",
    "title": "Vocabulary For Expressing Content Signals",
    "date": "2025-10-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-romm-aipref-contentsignals/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.55,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes three categories for expressing preferences about digital asset use by automated processing systems. Designed to nest within the broader AIPREF-VOCAB framework for automated processing preferences.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental extension to existing aipref work with limited novel contribution",
    "maturity_note": "Very brief specification lacking detail and concrete implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with draft-vaughan-aipref-vocab, appears to be complementary work",
    "momentum_note": "Part of coordinated effort on content preferences but limited individual impact",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to AI training consent but adds limited value over related drafts",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zl-agents-networking-architecture",
    "title": "Agents Networking Architecture for Enterprise and Broadband",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zl-agents-networking-architecture/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines core components and interactions for agent networking architecture in enterprise and broadband environments. Provides foundational framework for agent-based networking systems.",
    "novelty_note": "Basic architectural framework, but limited novelty in core concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early draft with brief content, lacks detailed specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps significantly with other agent networking architecture drafts",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum indicated by brief content and basic scope",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to growing agent networking field but lacks depth",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-men-rtgwg-agent-networking-digibank-scenario",
    "title": "Agents Networking Scenarios in Enterprise and Broadband Networks",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-men-rtgwg-agent-networking-digibank-scenario/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes digital banking scenarios evolving toward agentic service interconnection and proposes an agent networking architecture centered on agent gateways. Focuses on enterprise and broadband network contexts.",
    "novelty_note": "Specific application to digital banking is somewhat novel but agent gateway concept is not unique",
    "maturity_note": "Scenario-focused with limited technical depth on implementation",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with the other digital banking draft and agent gateway concepts",
    "momentum_note": "Banking-specific use cases may have limited broader appeal in IETF context",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to understanding agent networking applications but narrow domain focus",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zhang-aiproto-svcb-mapping-for-agents",
    "title": "Service Binding Mapping for Agents",
    "date": "2026-01-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-aiproto-svcb-mapping-for-agents/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines new DNS resource record type AGENT as SVCB-compatible RR for agent service resolution. Addresses limitations of current DNS for intelligent agent protocols.",
    "novelty_note": "New DNS record type specifically for agent services",
    "maturity_note": "Short 6-page draft with basic mapping specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with draft-cui-dns-native-agent-naming-resolution",
    "momentum_note": "Competing approach to DNS-based agent resolution may limit adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant but potentially redundant with other DNS-based agent work",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wolfe-faf-format",
    "title": "FAF: Foundational AI-context Format for Development Tools",
    "date": "2026-01-21",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wolfe-faf-format/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "YAML-based format for sharing software project context with AI development tools. Addresses context fragmentation in multi-agent development environments.",
    "novelty_note": "Specific application to AI development tools is novel though format approach is conventional",
    "maturity_note": "Brief specification lacks detailed schema and implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Similar to existing project metadata formats but AI-specific features",
    "momentum_note": "IANA registration shows some traction but limited technical depth may hinder adoption",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to developer tooling but narrow use case limits broader impact",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-templin-manet-inet-omni",
    "title": "MANET Internetworking with AERO/OMNI",
    "date": "2026-02-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-manet-inet-omni/",
    "pages": 13,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.55,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents framework for connecting mobile ad-hoc networks to the Internet using AERO and OMNI technologies. Enables isolated mobile networks to interface with fixed infrastructure.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental work building on existing AERO/OMNI technologies for MANET connectivity",
    "maturity_note": "Builds on established technologies but specific integration approach needs development",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with existing MANET and mobile networking solutions",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum as MANET interest has declined in recent years",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for autonomous mobile systems but traditional networking focus",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zm-rtgwg-mcp-network-measurement",
    "title": "MCP-based Network Measurement Framework: Using Model Context Protocol for Intelligent Network Measurement",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zm-rtgwg-mcp-network-measurement/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "A2A protocols",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes using Model Context Protocol to enable AI-driven network measurement operations. Network devices act as MCP servers while controllers with LLM capability serve as clients for natural language-driven monitoring.",
    "novelty_note": "Novel application of MCP to network measurement, but builds on established concepts",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage work, 10 pages suggests preliminary development",
    "overlap_note": "High overlap with other MCP network management drafts in this set",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum indicators, newer draft with narrow focus",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to autonomous network operations but specific to measurement domain",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ai-traffic",
    "title": "Handling inter-DC/Edge AI-related network traffic: Problem statement",
    "date": "2024-10-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ai-traffic/",
    "pages": 38,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.55,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 1,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Problem statement for handling AI/LLM traffic between datacenters and edge locations. Focuses on understanding network characteristics of distributed AI training and inference workloads.",
    "novelty_note": "Good identification of federated AI networking challenges, though problem statement only",
    "maturity_note": "Problem statement level, lacks concrete solutions or protocols",
    "overlap_note": "Identical content to draft-aft-ai-traffic, appears to be duplicate or renamed draft",
    "momentum_note": "Old version from 2024, likely superseded by the aft version",
    "relevance_note": "Highly relevant to current federated AI trends and inter-DC traffic management needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-dunbar-onsen-ac-pe2pe-ucmp-applicability",
    "title": "Applying Attachmet Circuit and PE2PE YANG Data Model to dynamic policies Use Case",
    "date": "2026-02-23",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-onsen-ac-pe2pe-ucmp-applicability/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.55,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Applies existing IETF YANG models to dynamic UCMP policy enforcement for AI inference traffic between distributed edge data centers. Identifies gaps in current models for cloud-initiated, time-bounded network policy coordination.",
    "novelty_note": "Limited novelty - primarily applies existing YANG models to new use case",
    "maturity_note": "Well-structured analysis but relies heavily on existing specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with general YANG model applicability studies",
    "momentum_note": "Niche application area with limited immediate adoption potential",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for AI infrastructure networking but very specialized scope",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-yu-ai-agent-use-cases-in-6g",
    "title": "AI Agent Use Cases and Requirements in 6G Network",
    "date": "2026-01-05",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yu-ai-agent-use-cases-in-6g/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.5,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft catalogs use cases for AI agents in 6G networks, referencing 3GPP work to define how network-embedded AI agents can provide intent-based services through collaboration between device, network, and application agents. It outlines potential requirements for supporting AI agent operations in mobile networks from an operator perspective.",
    "novelty_note": "Primarily compiles existing 3GPP use cases rather than proposing new technical solutions",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage work that catalogues requirements without detailed technical specifications or protocols",
    "overlap_note": "Heavily references 3GPP SA1 R20 Study TR 22.870 and duplicates much content from those standardization efforts",
    "momentum_note": "China Telecom authors but appears to be individual submission without working group adoption, revision -02 suggests limited community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses AI agent networking in mobile systems, covering key aspects like identity, discovery, and collaboration requirements",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-willman-rtgwg-conduit-tunnels",
    "title": "Underlay for IPsec Transport",
    "date": "2026-02-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-willman-rtgwg-conduit-tunnels/",
    "pages": 38,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.5,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies CONDUIT protocol for managing IPsec tunnel fabrics with automated lifecycle management and SRv6 integration. Focuses on tactical networks with strict cryptographic requirements.",
    "novelty_note": "Combines existing technologies (IPsec, SRv6) in novel orchestration framework",
    "maturity_note": "Detailed specification with clear architecture but needs implementation validation",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing tunnel management and SRv6 specifications",
    "momentum_note": "Traditional networking focus with limited AI/agent community engagement",
    "relevance_note": "Primarily traditional networking with potential but indirect AI/agent relevance",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-bernardos-green-isac-uc",
    "title": "Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) use case for GREEN",
    "date": "2025-08-31",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bernardos-green-isac-uc/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.5,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents ISAC use case for GREEN Working Group discussions on joint sensing and communication optimization. Targets applications in autonomous systems, smart cities, and industrial automation.",
    "novelty_note": "Use case presentation of known ISAC concepts, limited technical novelty",
    "maturity_note": "Template-based use case document without technical specifications or solutions",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with existing ISAC research and GREEN use cases",
    "momentum_note": "ISAC is emerging area and GREEN WG is active, but early stage",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for autonomous systems requiring sensing capabilities but lacks AI/agent focus",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-hu-neotec-usecases-notc",
    "title": "Use cases in network operations in telco cloud",
    "date": "2026-01-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hu-neotec-usecases-notc/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.5,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Model serving/inference",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents network operations use cases for telco cloud orchestration including AI-based video recognition and dynamic bandwidth transport. Demonstrates elastic provisioning, failover mechanisms, and cross-domain resource scheduling for telecom cloud environments.",
    "novelty_note": "Applies existing concepts to telco cloud scenarios rather than introducing new technical approaches",
    "maturity_note": "Use case descriptions lack technical depth and standardization specifics",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with general cloud orchestration and network slicing work",
    "momentum_note": "Relevant to telco AI adoption but limited technical innovation",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant for telco AI deployments but lacks technical depth",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-mzsg-rtgwg-agent-cross-device-comm-framework",
    "title": "Cross-device Communication Framework for AI Agents in Network Devices",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mzsg-rtgwg-agent-cross-device-comm-framework/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.45,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes communication framework for AI agents deployed across different network devices. Focuses on collaboration requirements for tasks like network measurement and troubleshooting.",
    "novelty_note": "Addresses practical need for agent coordination in network devices",
    "maturity_note": "Very early stage with minimal technical detail or protocol specification",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with general agent communication frameworks",
    "momentum_note": "Network device AI deployment still in early phases",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for network operations but limited scope and early development",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-pim-zeroconf-mcast-addr-alloc-ps",
    "title": "Zeroconf Multicast Address Allocation Problem Statement and Requirements",
    "date": "2026-02-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pim-zeroconf-mcast-addr-alloc-ps/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.45,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Problem statement for multicast address allocation in zero-configuration environments. Identifies challenges and requirements for decentralized multicast group address assignment without manual configuration.",
    "novelty_note": "Problem statement for known issues, not introducing new concepts but formalizing requirements",
    "maturity_note": "Solid problem analysis but only 11 pages, needs companion solution drafts for full impact",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing zeroconf and multicast allocation work but focuses on specific intersection",
    "momentum_note": "IETF working group effort but problem statements typically have lower implementation urgency",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses niche use case, limited relevance to broader AI/agent networking trends",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-dunbar-onsen-ac-te-applicability",
    "title": "Applying Attachmet Circuit and Traffic Engineering YANG Data Model to Edge AI Use Case",
    "date": "2026-02-23",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-onsen-ac-te-applicability/",
    "pages": 25,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.45,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Explores application of IETF AC and TE YANG models for dynamic AI model placement at edge cloud sites. Focuses on network performance-based optimization for real-time AI inference.",
    "novelty_note": "Similar approach to companion draft - applying existing models to AI use cases",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive analysis but primarily an applicability study",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with companion UCMP draft and general TE work",
    "momentum_note": "Limited broader applicability beyond specific edge AI scenarios",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses relevant edge AI deployment challenges but narrow focus",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-madhavan-aipref-displaybasedpref",
    "title": "A Vocabulary for Controlling Usage of Content Collected by Search and AI Crawlers",
    "date": "2025-09-22",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-madhavan-aipref-displaybasedpref/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.45,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes vocabulary for controlling content usage by search and AI crawlers. Creates structured declarations about restrictions and permissions for crawler-retrieved content.",
    "novelty_note": "Similar concept to IETF vocab draft but different approach and scope",
    "maturity_note": "Individual submission with reasonable development but less institutional backing",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with official IETF vocab draft in purpose and scope",
    "momentum_note": "Individual draft competing with established working group effort",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant topic but potentially superseded by working group efforts",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ecdh-psi",
    "title": "PSI based on ECDH",
    "date": "2024-10-21",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ecdh-psi/",
    "pages": 25,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.45,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes ECDH-based Private Set Intersection protocol using elliptic curves and hash-to-curve methods. Implements classical Meadows protocol with modern cryptographic primitives.",
    "novelty_note": "Standard implementation of known PSI techniques, not particularly novel",
    "maturity_note": "Reasonably detailed but lacks implementation guidance and security analysis depth",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing PSI literature and protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum, niche application area",
    "relevance_note": "Moderate relevance for privacy-preserving applications",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zl-agents-networking-framework",
    "title": "Agents Networking Framework for Enterprise and Broadband",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zl-agents-networking-framework/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.4,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 4,
    "categories": [
      "Agent discovery/reg",
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "A2A protocols"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft proposes a networking framework for AI agents in enterprise and broadband environments, defining four core components: Agent Certificate Authority (ACA), Agent Registration Server (ARS), AI Agents, and Agent Gateway (AGw). It aims to enable secure agent-to-agent communication, identity management, and collaborative task execution across domains.",
    "novelty_note": "Framework combines existing concepts (PKI, service discovery, gateways) applied to AI agents without significant technical innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Very early draft with incomplete content (text cuts off mid-sentence), lacks technical depth, protocol specifications, and implementation details",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing service discovery protocols, PKI frameworks, and gateway architectures, though specific application to AI agents is less common",
    "momentum_note": "Multiple Huawei authors but no evidence of working group adoption, first revision (-00), and working group (rtgwg) focus may not align well with AI agent networking",
    "relevance_note": "Directly addresses core challenges in AI agent networking including identity, discovery, and secure inter-agent communication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-mailmaint-pacc",
    "title": "Automatic Configuration of Email, Calendar, and Contact Server Settings",
    "date": "2026-02-27",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mailmaint-pacc/",
    "pages": 38,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.4,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 4,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies automatic configuration mechanism for email, calendar, and contact applications. Service providers publish standardized configuration that user agents retrieve for simplified setup.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement to existing email configuration approaches",
    "maturity_note": "Mature specification with detailed protocol definition and good structure",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing autoconfiguration mechanisms like Thunderbird's",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum as email configuration is not a high-priority problem",
    "relevance_note": "Low relevance to AI/agent systems, traditional email automation",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tiloca-lake-exporter-output-length",
    "title": "In-band Agreement of Output Lengths for the EDHOC_Exporter Interface of Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)",
    "date": "2026-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tiloca-lake-exporter-output-length/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.4,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 2,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "This draft defines a mechanism for EDHOC peers to agree in-band on output lengths for the EDHOC_Exporter interface using External Authorization Data items. The approach allows negotiation of key derivation output sizes during the EDHOC handshake process.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental extension to existing EDHOC protocol using established EAD mechanisms",
    "maturity_note": "Builds on mature EDHOC foundation but adds new negotiation complexity",
    "overlap_note": "Specific to EDHOC exporter interface with limited overlap to other key agreement protocols",
    "momentum_note": "Niche enhancement for EDHOC deployments with limited broader appeal",
    "relevance_note": "Useful for EDHOC implementations but addresses narrow technical requirement",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ietf-bgp-idrp-usage",
    "title": "Application of the Border Gateway Protocol and IDRP for IP in the Internet",
    "date": "2024-08-23",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bgp-idrp-usage/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 3,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes usage guidelines for BGP and IDRP protocols in Internet inter-autonomous system routing. Serves as companion document defining practical application of these routing protocols.",
    "novelty_note": "Usage document for existing protocols with limited novel technical contribution",
    "maturity_note": "Comprehensive usage guide but references very dated protocol versions and email lists",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing BGP deployment and usage documentation",
    "momentum_note": "IETF draft but appears to cover legacy protocols with questionable current relevance",
    "relevance_note": "Limited relevance due to focus on dated protocol versions and deployment scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-rtgwg-llmsync-multicast",
    "title": "Multicast Use Cases for Large Language Model Synchronization",
    "date": "2026-02-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-rtgwg-llmsync-multicast/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 1,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Model serving/inference"
    ],
    "summary": "Discusses multicast use cases for Large Language Model synchronization in inference cloud services. Very brief draft outlining potential applications for LLM deployment scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Early exploration of multicast applications for LLM infrastructure",
    "maturity_note": "Very early stage with minimal technical detail or concrete proposals",
    "overlap_note": "Unique focus on LLM-specific multicast applications",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum due to lack of technical depth and concrete solutions",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to ML infrastructure but needs substantial development to be actionable",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-zl-agents-networking-scenarios",
    "title": "Agents Networking Scenarios in Enterprise and Broadband Networks",
    "date": "2025-10-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zl-agents-networking-scenarios/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Human-agent interaction",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes specific agent networking scenarios for enterprise and home broadband networks. Focuses on practical use cases distinct from 6G and general Internet scenarios.",
    "novelty_note": "Limited novelty, mainly scenario descriptions based on assumptions",
    "maturity_note": "Brief 8-page document with basic scenario coverage",
    "overlap_note": "Scenarios overlap with other agent networking use case discussions",
    "momentum_note": "Low momentum with brief content and assumption-based scenarios",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant for understanding practical deployment contexts",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-pang-agents-networking-scenarios",
    "title": "Agents Networking Scenarios in Enterprise and Broadband Networks",
    "date": "2025-11-06",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pang-agents-networking-scenarios/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes networking scenarios for agents in enterprise and broadband networks, distinguishing them from mobile and Internet scenarios. Based on reasonable assumptions as agentic services are still emerging.",
    "novelty_note": "Basic scenario enumeration without novel technical contributions",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage draft with assumptions rather than concrete solutions",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with general agent networking concepts but focuses on specific environments",
    "momentum_note": "Limited technical depth may constrain adoption momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for understanding agent deployment contexts but lacks implementation guidance",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-han-ai-agent-impact-infra",
    "title": "The Impact of AI Agent to Network Infrastructure",
    "date": "2026-01-09",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-han-ai-agent-impact-infra/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Discusses and analyzes the impact of AI agents on network infrastructure. Aims to facilitate IETF discussion and standardization efforts.",
    "novelty_note": "General analysis document, limited novel technical insights",
    "maturity_note": "Basic discussion document with analysis issues, needs more technical depth",
    "overlap_note": "Some overlap with other infrastructure-focused AI agent discussions",
    "momentum_note": "Broad scope but lacks concrete proposals, may struggle to gain traction",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant for understanding infrastructure impacts but lacks actionable content",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-saag-zt-problem-statement",
    "title": "Zero trust standards in IETF: use cases and problem statement",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-saag-zt-problem-statement/",
    "pages": 8,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Identifies the need for standardized zero trust interoperability protocols in IETF. Proposes framework for multi-vendor zero trust environments moving beyond existing architectural guidance.",
    "novelty_note": "Zero trust concepts well-established, but interoperability focus has merit",
    "maturity_note": "Problem statement stage with numerous typos and formatting issues",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing zero trust and network security work",
    "momentum_note": "Early draft with basic problem identification, unclear community support",
    "relevance_note": "Zero trust relevant to AI agents but not AI-specific focus",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-improving-data-quality-tags",
    "title": "Improving Data Quality through Special Text Tags",
    "date": "2024-01-26",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-improving-data-quality-tags/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "AI safety/alignment"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes special text tags to enhance data quality and improve conversational AI model understanding. Tags provide additional context and structure during training and inference for more accurate responses.",
    "novelty_note": "Straightforward application of markup concepts to AI training data",
    "maturity_note": "Very brief document lacking detailed technical specification",
    "overlap_note": "Some similarity to existing markup and metadata approaches",
    "momentum_note": "Limited scope and unclear adoption path",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to AI training quality but approach may be too simplistic",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-illyes-aipref-cbcp",
    "title": "Crawler best practices",
    "date": "2025-10-07",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-illyes-aipref-cbcp/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes best practices for web crawlers with basic guidelines. Very brief document focusing on crawler behavior recommendations.",
    "novelty_note": "Limited novelty as crawler best practices are well-established domain",
    "maturity_note": "Very brief document with minimal technical depth, appears early stage",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with general web automation and crawler management practices",
    "momentum_note": "GitHub-hosted with recent timestamp but minimal content suggests limited momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Moderately relevant for AI crawler behavior but lacks technical depth",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-hy-srv6ops-sfc-in-cloud-uc",
    "title": "Use Cases and Requirements for Service Function Chaining based on SRv6 in cloud.",
    "date": "2025-04-19",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hy-srv6ops-sfc-in-cloud-uc/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines use cases for implementing Service Function Chaining using SRv6 in cloud environments. Proposes virtual routers as agents to enable SRv6 capabilities in cloud services.",
    "novelty_note": "SRv6 and SFC are established technologies, limited novelty in cloud application",
    "maturity_note": "Early draft with basic use case outline, lacks detailed technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing SRv6 and SFC standardization efforts",
    "momentum_note": "Niche cloud-network integration topic with limited broad appeal",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to cloud-network convergence but serves specific operator needs",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-allman-tcpx2-hack",
    "title": "TCPx2: Don't Fence Me In",
    "date": "2024-12-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-allman-tcpx2-hack/",
    "pages": 9,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes increasing TCP header size without changing protocol semantics. Aims to solve problems caused by TCP's lack of header space for certain values.",
    "novelty_note": "Header extension concept exists, specific approach may be novel",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage work, deployment challenges unclear",
    "overlap_note": "Multiple TCP extension mechanisms already proposed",
    "momentum_note": "Limited community momentum for TCP header changes",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses known limitation but deployment barriers high",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-lopez-lake-edhoc-psk",
    "title": "EDHOC PSK authentication",
    "date": "2025-01-21",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lopez-lake-edhoc-psk/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.35,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines Pre-Shared Key authentication method for EDHOC protocol. Specifies message flows and security considerations for PSK-based EDHOC authentication.",
    "novelty_note": "Extends existing EDHOC with well-known PSK authentication approach",
    "maturity_note": "Recent draft with limited detail and implementation maturity",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with core EDHOC specification and other auth methods",
    "momentum_note": "Individual contribution with uncertain working group adoption prospects",
    "relevance_note": "Useful for scenarios requiring PSK authentication with EDHOC",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-hong-nmrg-ai-deploy",
    "title": "Considerations of network/system for AI services",
    "date": "2025-04-24",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hong-nmrg-ai-deploy/",
    "pages": 25,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.25,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Model serving/inference",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes network and system configurations for distributed AI inference services, covering deployment considerations for edge and cloud environments. Includes use cases like self-driving vehicles and network digital twins.",
    "novelty_note": "Basic coverage of distributed AI deployment, but lacks novel technical contributions or specific protocols",
    "maturity_note": "Early draft with grammar issues and incomplete technical details",
    "overlap_note": "Heavily overlaps with draft-irtf-nmrg-ai-deploy which appears to be an updated version",
    "momentum_note": "Superseded by the IRTF version, limited independent momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Addresses relevant distributed AI deployment challenges but at a high level",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-ruas-cfrg-ecdp",
    "title": "ECDP: Elliptic Curve Data Protocol",
    "date": "2025-05-19",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ruas-cfrg-ecdp/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.25,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Specifies peer-to-peer communication protocol for decentralized networks using elliptic curve cryptography. Combines ECDSA authentication with ECDH key exchange over TCP/UDP.",
    "novelty_note": "Combines existing ECC techniques without significant cryptographic innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Basic specification with limited implementation details and security analysis",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with existing P2P protocols and standard ECC applications",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum as individual submission without working group support",
    "relevance_note": "Moderate relevance for decentralized applications but competes with established solutions",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-kompella-lsr-mptecap",
    "title": "Multipath Traffic Engineering Capabilities",
    "date": "2026-03-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kompella-lsr-mptecap/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.2,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines capabilities advertising for Multipath Traffic Engineering (MPTE) in IGP routing protocols. Enables nodes to advertise MPTE support for tunnel provisioning decisions.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental extension to existing traffic engineering capabilities advertising",
    "maturity_note": "Concise but complete at 6 pages, builds on established IGP mechanisms",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing TE capabilities and IGP extensions",
    "momentum_note": "Limited to specific networking community, not AI-focused",
    "relevance_note": "Limited relevance to AI/agent systems, traditional networking focus",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tjw-dbound2-problem-statement",
    "title": "Domain Boundaries 2.0 Problem Statement",
    "date": "2024-01-11",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tjw-dbound2-problem-statement/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.2,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Outlines problems with determining organizational boundaries in DNS when clients make administrative relationship inferences. Identifies issues with current mitigation strategies for domain boundary determination.",
    "novelty_note": "Problem statement for existing DNS organizational boundary issues",
    "maturity_note": "Good problem identification but limited to problem statement phase",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with existing DNS security and organizational identity work",
    "momentum_note": "Long-standing problem with unclear urgency for AI-specific solutions",
    "relevance_note": "Peripherally relevant to AI agents needing to understand domain relationships",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-daviel-html-geo-tag",
    "title": "Geographic registration of HTML documents",
    "date": "2024-12-18",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-daviel-html-geo-tag/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.2,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Data formats/interop",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines method for embedding geographic location in HTML documents using META tags. Enables automated resource discovery based on latitude, longitude and civic location.",
    "novelty_note": "Geographic tagging concept exists, limited novelty in HTML META approach",
    "maturity_note": "Complete specification but addresses legacy HTML approach",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing geolocation and metadata standards",
    "momentum_note": "Limited momentum given modern geolocation alternatives",
    "relevance_note": "Low relevance due to superior modern geolocation methods",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-dunbar-neotec-ac-pe2pe-ucmp-applicability",
    "title": "Applying Attachmet Circuit and PE2PE YANG Data Model to dynamic policies Use Case",
    "date": "2025-12-25",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-neotec-ac-pe2pe-ucmp-applicability/",
    "pages": 21,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.15,
    "novelty": 1,
    "maturity": 3,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "ML traffic mgmt",
      "Policy/governance",
      "Data formats/interop"
    ],
    "summary": "Evaluates existing YANG data models for dynamic UCMP policy enforcement across edge cloud sites. Identifies gaps in current IETF specifications for time-scoped, cloud-initiated network policies.",
    "novelty_note": "Applicability study of existing models rather than novel protocol development",
    "maturity_note": "Thorough analysis document with practical evaluation of existing specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Heavily references and applies existing YANG models with gap analysis",
    "momentum_note": "Incremental analysis work with limited new technical contributions",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant for understanding current model limitations in dynamic policy scenarios",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "w3c-web-user-agents",
    "title": "Web User Agents",
    "date": "20260120",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/w3c-web-user-agents/",
    "pages": 0,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.15,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Human-agent interaction"
    ],
    "summary": "Establishes duties and responsibilities of web user agents (browsers and intermediaries) toward their users. Proposes that user agents should prioritize user interests over other constituencies through collectively-discussed standards.",
    "novelty_note": "Basic concept of user agent duties exists, but formal standardization approach is somewhat novel",
    "maturity_note": "Very early stage with minimal detail on implementation or specific requirements",
    "overlap_note": "Moderate overlap with existing W3C browser standards and user agent specifications",
    "momentum_note": "Uncertain momentum without clear working group or implementation commitments",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant to web standards but limited direct connection to AI/agent networking focus",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-vattaparambil-positioning-of-poa",
    "title": "Positioning of PoA",
    "date": "2024-04-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vattaparambil-positioning-of-poa/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.15,
    "novelty": 3,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 1,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Positions Power of Attorney based authorization as a decentralized subgranting technique for constrained environments. Compares PoA with existing authorization protocols and identity solutions.",
    "novelty_note": "Interesting application of legal concept to technical authorization, moderate novelty",
    "maturity_note": "Positioning paper rather than detailed protocol specification, needs more technical depth",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with OAuth, delegation protocols, and capability-based security",
    "momentum_note": "Individual submission with minimal recent activity or community interest",
    "relevance_note": "Limited immediate relevance, more academic positioning than practical protocol",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-wang-data-transmission-security-irii",
    "title": "Data Transmission Security of Identity Resolution in Industrial Internet",
    "date": "2025-11-22",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-data-transmission-security-irii/",
    "pages": 15,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.1,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 3,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Agent identity/auth",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Examines security requirements for data transmission in Industrial Internet identity resolution systems. Focuses on protecting cross-organizational data sharing and resolution processes.",
    "novelty_note": "Standard security analysis for industrial systems, covers expected security concerns",
    "maturity_note": "Early analysis phase, lacks concrete security mechanisms or protocols",
    "overlap_note": "Overlaps with general industrial IoT and identity resolution security work",
    "momentum_note": "Addresses important area but lacks technical depth and implementation path",
    "relevance_note": "Limited direct AI/agent relevance, more focused on industrial identity systems",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-li-iotops-intelligent-security",
    "title": "Intelligent Protection Optimization System for IOT",
    "date": "2024-09-01",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-iotops-intelligent-security/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.05,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes an information-centered network architecture for IoT security with intelligent protection optimization across naming, data exchange, and caching layers. Aims to improve content privacy protection without additional costs.",
    "novelty_note": "Information-centric networking for IoT security is not new, lacks specific technical innovations",
    "maturity_note": "Very early stage with vague technical details and minimal concrete implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing ICN and IoT security drafts and research",
    "momentum_note": "Limited adoption indicators, appears to be individual submission without broad support",
    "relevance_note": "IoT security is relevant but approach seems disconnected from current IETF IoT work",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-kim-nmrg-2nmai5g",
    "title": "Native Network Management using Artificial Intelligence over an Adaptive B5G Network",
    "date": "2024-01-10",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kim-nmrg-2nmai5g/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.05,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 3,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "AI safety/alignment",
      "ML traffic mgmt"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes AI-driven autonomous security and network management for B5G networks using SOAR principles. Focuses on maintaining constant security quality through intent-based management.",
    "novelty_note": "Combines existing concepts (AI, SOAR, intent-based networking) without clear innovation",
    "maturity_note": "Very early conceptual stage with unclear technical specifications and requirements",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with existing AI-driven network management proposals",
    "momentum_note": "Limited technical detail suggests low implementation momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Relevant topic area but lacks concrete technical contributions",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-steckbeck-ua-conn-sec",
    "title": "User Agent Connection Security",
    "date": "2025-08-17",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-steckbeck-ua-conn-sec/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.0,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes framework for user agents to restrict connections to authorized second and third-party resources. Aims to prevent attacks through compromised connected resources.",
    "novelty_note": "Incremental improvement to existing web security policies like CSP",
    "maturity_note": "Brief 6-page document lacks detailed specification and implementation guidance",
    "overlap_note": "Significant overlap with CSP and other web security frameworks",
    "momentum_note": "Limited evidence of community interest or implementation momentum",
    "relevance_note": "Tangentially relevant to AI agents that use web resources",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-templin-manet-inet",
    "title": "MANET Internetworking: Problem Statement and Gap Analysis",
    "date": "2026-01-12",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-templin-manet-inet/",
    "pages": 11,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 2.0,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Presents problem statement and gap analysis for MANET internetworking with fixed networks. Identifies challenges in connecting autonomous mobile node systems to the global Internet.",
    "novelty_note": "Problem statement format limits novelty, addressing well-known MANET challenges",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage problem identification without proposed solutions",
    "overlap_note": "High overlap with decades of MANET research and existing problem statements",
    "momentum_note": "MANET research has declined in recent years with limited working group activity",
    "relevance_note": "Limited relevance to modern AI/agent systems, focuses on traditional mobile networking",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-tu-nmrg-blockchain-trusted-protocol",
    "title": "A Blockchain Trusted Protocol for Intelligent Communication Network",
    "date": "2025-04-10",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-tu-nmrg-blockchain-trusted-protocol/",
    "pages": 14,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 1.8,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 2,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Policy/governance",
      "Agent identity/auth"
    ],
    "summary": "Defines a blockchain-based trusted protocol specifically for sixth-generation (6G) intelligent communication networks. Very brief specification with limited technical details provided.",
    "novelty_note": "Low novelty - blockchain for networking is well-explored, 6G context adds some freshness",
    "maturity_note": "Very low maturity - only 14 pages with minimal technical detail for such a broad topic",
    "overlap_note": "High overlap - many blockchain networking protocols exist",
    "momentum_note": "Blockchain networking has mixed reception, 6G timeline is distant",
    "relevance_note": "Limited current relevance due to early 6G stage and sparse technical content",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-men-rtgwg-agent-networking-in-digibank",
    "title": "Agent Networking Scenarios of Digital Banking",
    "date": "2025-11-02",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-men-rtgwg-agent-networking-in-digibank/",
    "pages": 10,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 1.75,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 2,
    "overlap": 5,
    "momentum": 1,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Agent discovery/reg"
    ],
    "summary": "Describes digital banking digitalization trends toward agentic services and proposes agent networking architecture with agent gateway as core component. Very similar to the other digital banking draft.",
    "novelty_note": "Limited novelty, appears to duplicate content from related draft",
    "maturity_note": "Early stage conceptual work with scenario focus",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with draft-men-rtgwg-agent-networking-digibank-scenario",
    "momentum_note": "Duplicate content reduces momentum and may indicate coordination issues",
    "relevance_note": "Limited relevance due to narrow focus and apparent duplication",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-liu-access-collaboration-agent",
    "title": "Ubiquitous Access Collaboration Requirements for AI Agent Protocols",
    "date": "2025-10-17",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-access-collaboration-agent/",
    "pages": 6,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 1.65,
    "novelty": 2,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 1,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "A2A protocols",
      "Other AI/agent"
    ],
    "summary": "Brief document exploring requirements for AI agent communication protocols in ubiquitous access collaboration scenarios. Very preliminary with minimal detail.",
    "novelty_note": "Limited novelty - discusses general requirements without specific solutions",
    "maturity_note": "Very early stage - only 6 pages with minimal technical content",
    "overlap_note": "General requirements overlap with other agent protocol discussions",
    "momentum_note": "No clear momentum - appears to be initial exploration only",
    "relevance_note": "Potentially relevant but too underdeveloped to assess properly",
    "doc_status": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "draft-doujiali-cloudnetwork-intelligentoperation",
    "title": "An requirement of Cloud Network Intelligent Operation and Maintenance.",
    "date": "2025-04-20",
    "source": "ietf",
    "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-doujiali-cloudnetwork-intelligentoperation/",
    "pages": 5,
    "group": "individual",
    "score": 1.35,
    "novelty": 1,
    "maturity": 1,
    "overlap": 4,
    "momentum": 1,
    "relevance": 2,
    "categories": [
      "Autonomous netops",
      "Policy/governance"
    ],
    "summary": "Proposes requirements for cloud network intelligent operation and maintenance. Very brief document outlining needs for standardized intelligent operations.",
    "novelty_note": "Requirements-only document with no novel technical contributions",
    "maturity_note": "Extremely immature with minimal content and no technical specifications",
    "overlap_note": "Heavy overlap with existing network management and cloud operations work",
    "momentum_note": "No clear working group support or adoption pathway",
    "relevance_note": "Topic is relevant but document provides little value to IETF standardization",
    "doc_status": ""
  }
]