# The AI Agent Standards Gold Rush

A data-driven analysis of 475 IETF Internet-Drafts on AI agents, autonomous systems, and machine learning protocols.

The IETF is experiencing an unprecedented surge in AI/agent standardization activity. We built an automated analysis pipeline to make sense of it: 713 authors, 501 ideas, 132 cross-organizational convergent ideas, and 12 identified gaps.

## The Series

- Post 1: The Gold Rush
- Post 2: Who Writes the Rules
- Post 3: The OAuth Wars
- Post 4: What Nobody Builds
- Post 5: Where Drafts Converge
- Post 6: The Big Picture
- Post 7: How We Built This
- Post 8: Agents Building the Agent Analysis

## About

This analysis was produced using the IETF Draft Analyzer, an open-source Python tool that combines Claude for multi-dimensional rating and idea extraction with Ollama for semantic embeddings. Total API cost: ~$9-15.

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