Re: how painful is it to use our web sites, was Required Google Account

["Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood=40comcast.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I hear that web sites everywhere are being hammered by bots.  On my own
small system I see a bunch of SEO bots like petalbot, increasing amounts
of AI scraping from Claude and OpenAI, and a lot of stuff that I can't
really tell except that the URLs suggest it's looking for security holes.
It would be nice if network operators could push back and stop accepting
traffic from places that allow abusive scraping, but I have yet to see
much beyond complaining and firewall-ish stuff like we have.

I like this re-framing, John. What we are all experiencing appears to be a response to an underlying issue of bot-driven traffic. Maybe that is something the IETF might want to talk about – not as a Tools Team issue but a broader problem on the internet, to which perhaps there might be future IETF-driven solutions. I know I would enjoy learning more about the increase in bot volume, what is driving it, where the traffic sources from, etc.

JL

 

JL