RFC 9114: The Human as a Network Bottleneck

Field notes

The document assigns distinct protocol roles to the person who emits an underspecified request, the agent that expands it, the agent that reviews it, and the person who must acknowledge the result. It describes intent as lossy and compressed—often one sentence in a chat window—and says the first three legs are fast while the fourth introduces the central delay. The page also records an unassigned approver and a review completed in under four seconds.