RSL Standard
What is the purpose of content encryption? #2
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I see that RSL supports the idea of encrypted content (https://rslstandard.org/rsl#element-content, https://rslstandard.org/guide/encrypted-content) It's unclear to me what problems this solves. What might a concrete example use case look like? |
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Looks like this is for things like "paywalled web content" - so if you operate a news publication with a paywall, or an online book service like O'Reilly Online, you can advertise the availability of that material for AI crawlers and make it clear that they have to pay the licensing fee in order to be able to decrypt it. |
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That's exactly the intent, but with the one caveat that this does not need to be a paid license (e.g., researchers protecting free but sensitive data) - the overarching goal is to create a simple, standardized path to bring all human knowledge online, not just what is currently available to crawlers. |
Looks like this is for things like "paywalled web content" - so if you operate a news publication with a paywall, or an online book service like O'Reilly Online, you can advertise the availability of that material for AI crawlers and make it clear that they have to pay the licensing fee in order to be able to decrypt it.