cs.NI · 2026-09-11 · No. 112

Networking and Internet Architecture, 2026-09-11.

1 new papers in cs.NI. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

1 entries
  1. 01

    terms.txt: A Consent and Compensation Protocol for Agentic Web Access

    Rajarshi Chowdhury

    cs.NI · cs.AI · cs.CR · cs.CY

    The open web ran on an unwritten bargain: sites admitted crawlers, and search engines sent visitors back. Public measurements show that bargain breaking under AI crawlers and agents. Automated clients now make up most requests, training dominates Cloudflare-classified crawling, and the largest AI platforms fetch thousands of pages for each visitor they return. The web's common control, robots.txt, cannot express identity, purpose, terms, or...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.11152 · PDF

This edition is part of The Daily Abstract — cs.NI archive. Subscribe to receive these in your inbox each morning, automatically translated to Spanish, with reply-to-PDF: arxivdaily.ignorelist.com.

Colophon Set in Georgia, with system sans for interface chrome and a monospaced stack for code and paper identifiers. Sole accent: amber #D99C5E. Built and served on an always-free VM. The masthead is set 14% letterspaced because newspapers do that and it works.