@techreport{treneule-humia-protocol-00, number = {draft-treneule-humia-protocol-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-treneule-humia-protocol/00/}, author = {Benjamin Treneule}, title = {{HUMIA: A Website-First Protocol for Human-AI Cooperation}}, pagetotal = 12, year = 2026, month = aug, day = 19, abstract = {HUMIA defines a website-first mechanism for publishing a machine- readable cooperation policy for AI agents. A website publishes a JSON policy at /.well-known/humia.json. The policy identifies the origin and expresses site-level conditions for public-content access, selected AI usage purposes, attribution, and optional usage reporting. HUMIA does not replace the Robots Exclusion Protocol, authentication, authorization, licensing, or access-control mechanisms. It is an additional cooperation layer. This document also defines an optional, experimental Humia: discovery record in robots.txt that points HUMIA-aware agents to the canonical policy URI.}, }