420 Requester Impaired
2023-12-12 17:45:22.525113+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
RT timbray@cosocial.ca Tim Bray @timbray@cosocial.ca
Proposal for HTTP Status Code 420: Requester Impaired.
Draft: https://www.ietf.org/archive/i...oda-420requesterimpaired-02.html
Discussion. starts here: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/...etf-http-wg/2023OctDec/0239.html
The discussion acknowledges the joke, but points out....
The original idea for this was an April Fool's RFC. 420 is an available client error response code, and the number 420 is associated with marijuana use. However, as I was writing and drafting it occurred to me that this is a legitimate need. With AI systems being given more operational autonomy and the fact that Large Language Models (LLMs) can "hallucinate" responses, non-human as well as human requesters can be impaired. If impaired requestors are attached to something like remote-operated heavy equipment the results could be catastrophic. Dedicating an HTTP response code to this will allow for better visibility and remediation of impaired requesters.