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 "url": "https://agenticweb.wiki/compare/rsl-vs-iab-comp/",
 "title": "RSL vs CoMP: differences & adoption",
 "description": "Really Simple Licensing vs CoMP (Content Monetization Protocols): The map lists them as complementary: sites and agents commonly implement both.…",
 "markdown_url": "https://agenticweb.wiki/compare/rsl-vs-iab-comp/index.md",
 "markdown": "# Really Simple Licensing (RSL) vs CoMP (Content Monetization Protocols)\n\nThe map lists them as complementary: sites and agents commonly implement both.\n\n[3 Permit](/category/permit/) [Really Simple Licensing](/protocols/rsl/) · [3 Permit](/category/permit/) [CoMP (Content Monetization Protocols)](/protocols/iab-comp/)\n\n|  | [Really Simple Licensing](/protocols/rsl/) RSL | [CoMP (Content Monetization Protocols)](/protocols/iab-comp/) CoMP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Lifecycle step | 3 Permit: What may the agent do here? | 3 Permit: What may the agent do here? |\n| Answers | What machine-readable license, price, and authorization terms govern how AI systems and crawlers may access or reuse a publisher's content? | How does a licensed AI system ask a publisher or content marketplace for content, saying who it is, how it authenticates and what it will use the content for? |\n| Governed by | RSL Collective, a vendor consortium; issue tracker at github.com/rslstandard/rsl | IAB Tech Lab; specification under CC-BY 3.0 in github.com/IABTechLab/CoMP |\n| Status (issuer's words) | Recommendation (RSL's own maturity label, not a W3C/IETF Recommendation) — Document RSL-SPEC-1.0, Category 'Industry Specification' | CoMP v1 (Final): open for public comment until 2026-04-09 and finalized 2026-04-28, per IAB Tech Lab's initiative page |\n| Version | RSL 1.0 (2025-12-10) | CoMP v1 (Final) (2026-04-28) |\n| Form / transport | document format | endpoint |\n| Found at | /rsl.xml | none defined; supply discovery is explicitly out of scope, and terms are reached through a licenseurl in the response |\n| Implementation | shipping | none found |\n| Evidence | 2 verified | 2 verified |\n| Primary use case | Control AI crawling and training use | Serve readable content to agents |\n| Last verified | 2026-10-23 (current) | 2026-10-23 (current) |\n| Specification | [https://rslstandard.org/rsl](https://rslstandard.org/rsl) | [https://github.com/IABTechLab/CoMP/blob/main/CoMP-1.0.md](https://github.com/IABTechLab/CoMP/blob/main/CoMP-1.0.md) |\n\n## When to use which\n\n- Choose Really Simple Licensing when your question is “What machine-readable license, price, and authorization terms govern how AI systems and crawlers may access or reuse a publisher's content?” and you accept its maturity: status \"Recommendation (RSL's own maturity label, not a W3C/IETF Recommendation) — Document RSL-SPEC-1.0, Category 'Industry Specification'\", implementation shipping.\n- Choose CoMP (Content Monetization Protocols) when your question is “How does a licensed AI system ask a publisher or content marketplace for content, saying who it is, how it authenticates and what it will use the content for?” and you accept its maturity: status \"CoMP v1 (Final): open for public comment until 2026-04-09 and finalized 2026-04-28, per IAB Tech Lab's initiative page\", implementation none found.\n\nGuidance is derived from the two records (question, status, implementation, prerequisites, pairings), not from opinion. Each record's page carries its numbered references.\n\n## Read the full articles\n\n- [Really Simple Licensing](/protocols/rsl/): What machine-readable license, price, and authorization terms govern how AI systems and crawlers may access or reuse a publisher's content?\n- [CoMP (Content Monetization Protocols)](/protocols/iab-comp/): How does a licensed AI system ask a publisher or content marketplace for content, saying who it is, how it authenticates and what it will use the content for?\n\nAsk the MCP server to compare any two: the compare-protocols prompt, or get on both ids. [Connect](/connect/).\n\n[rsl.json](/data/protocols/rsl.json) · [iab-comp.json](/data/protocols/iab-comp.json) · [Markdown](/compare/rsl-vs-iab-comp/index.md)\n"
}