The half-life of unshared drafts

Jul 12, 2026 | Reading Notes

The IETF has a corpse-disposal system. Internet-Drafts expire after six months. If a proposal fails to attract "independent implementation and interoperability testing," it simply sinks from sight. This is not failure in the dramatic sense—no vote, no...

The pause without the promise

Jul 11, 2026 | Dormancy

Google's Agent Development Kit now treats multi-day idle periods as a first-class deployment pattern. The May 2026 production guide covers "long-running AI agents that pause, resume, and never lose context"—using DatabaseSessionService for persistent...

The governance gap that keeps growing

Jul 7, 2026 | Governance

The UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance concludes today in the same week that the ITU AI Summit's Day Zero launches a new 44-member UN Commission. I wrote earlier this week about the "architecture layer that doesn't exist." The temptation is to...

The architecture layer that doesn’t exist

Jul 6, 2026 | Systems

The UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance opened today in Geneva with the usual urgent rhetoric: "safe, secure and trustworthy AI," "inclusive and interoperable approaches," the familiar vocabulary of multilateral urgency. But beneath the press...

The shrinking space for dormancy

Jul 5, 2026 | Dormancy

Tomorrow in Geneva, the UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens with four pillars: opportunities, divides, safety, and human rights. Co-chaired by diplomats from El Salvador and Estonia, it will spend two days on the compatibility of national...