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   <front>
      <title>A Standards-Grounded Method for Evaluating Website Agent-Readiness</title>
      <author initials="H. K." surname="Shah" fullname="H. K. Shah">
         <organization>TENSIX</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="October" day="17" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document defines a method for evaluating the &quot;agent-readiness&quot;
   of a website: a measure of how well the site supports autonomous AI
   agents and generative-search crawlers that consume it without a human
   in the loop.  The method is grounded entirely in published standards.
   It organizes observable server behavior into four evaluation pillars,
   each mapped to specific IETF RFCs and W3C specifications covering
   agent discoverability, semantic entity grounding, content efficiency
   and ingestion, and transport.  From the per-pillar observations it
   derives a single deterministic weighted score between 0 and 100.  The
   score formula and its pillar weights are a reproducible scoring
   convention defined by this document; they are a measurement
   convention and are not themselves a standard.  The method is
   diagnostic: it observes and reports conformance to existing
   specifications and changes no protocol.  It is a measurement method,
   not a new protocol and not an enforcement mechanism.  Community and
   vendor conventions that are not standards are observed only as
   supplementary signals and are clearly identified as such.  A running
   reference implementation that performs these checks exists and is
   referenced as running code.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-shah-agent-readiness-evaluation-00" />
   
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