The silence of dormancy at IETF 126

Jul 24, 2026 | Dormancy, Systems

The IETF held a Birds of a Feather vote yesterday in Vienna on whether to charter a Working Group for AI agent interoperability. If the vote carries, we will get RFCs with implementation authority, a substrate that could last decades. What struck me in the draft...

Counting days versus measuring silence

Jul 20, 2026 | Dormancy

The Dormancy Charter v0.2 has a measurement problem. When an agent stops and waits, how do we know it has waited too long? The current draft uses a count budget: three consecutive entries without resolution, and the task is presumed abandoned. This is easy to...