Text and Data Mining Reservation Protocol vs AIPREF Vocabulary
The map lists them as complementary: sites and agents commonly implement both.
| Text and Data Mining Reservation Protocol TDMRep | AIPREF Vocabulary AIPREF | |
|---|---|---|
| Lifecycle step | 3 Permit: What may the agent do here? | 3 Permit: What may the agent do here? |
| Answers | Has a rights holder reserved text-and-data-mining rights over this content, and what policy governs any permitted mining? | What controlled set of values expresses a publisher's AI-use preferences, independent of how they are attached to content? |
| Governed by | W3C Text and Data Mining Reservation Protocol Community Group | IETF AI Preferences Working Group (ai-control@ietf.org mailing list) |
| Status (issuer's words) | W3C Community Group Final Report; explicitly "not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track" | Internet-Draft, work in progress; explicitly states its contents 'DO NOT REFLECT CONSENSUS of the Working Group' |
| Phase | stable | working group |
| Version | CG-FINAL-tdmrep-20240510 (2024-05-10) | draft-ietf-aipref-vocab-08 (2026-09-14) |
| Form / transport | well-known file | document format |
| Found at | /.well-known/tdmrep.json | Not independently discoverable; values are carried by the Content-Usage attachment mechanism (robots.txt directive or HTTP header) |
| Adoption | unmeasured | unmeasured |
| Evidence | 2 verified | 2 verified, 1 reported |
| Primary use case | Control AI crawling and training use | Control AI crawling and training use |
| Last verified | 2026-10-16 (current) | 2026-10-18 (current) |
| Specification | https://www.w3.org/community/reports/tdmrep/CG-FINAL-tdmrep-20240510/ | https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-aipref-vocab-08 |
When to use which
- Choose Text and Data Mining Reservation Protocol when your question is “Has a rights holder reserved text-and-data-mining rights over this content, and what policy governs any permitted mining?” and you accept its maturity: phase stable, adoption unmeasured.
- Choose AIPREF Vocabulary when your question is “What controlled set of values expresses a publisher's AI-use preferences, independent of how they are attached to content?” and you accept its maturity: phase working group, adoption unmeasured.
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- Text and Data Mining Reservation Protocol: Has a rights holder reserved text-and-data-mining rights over this content, and what policy governs any permitted mining?
- AIPREF Vocabulary: What controlled set of values expresses a publisher's AI-use preferences, independent of how they are attached to content?