Re: pay per crawl

Cloudflare is taking the lead for practical solutions in this area. Note that for micro-payments to be processed, both the crawler owner and the content owner must be Cloudflare clients. 

Also, in https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-training/ we see that Cloudflare starts processing the "IETF AI preference proposal" (which is working from the vocabulary started with Open Future).

Things are finally moving. 

Laurent

> Le 1 juil. 2025 à 15:17, Tzviya Siegman <tzviya@w3.org> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Publishing BG,
> 
> Cloudflare introduced something Pay per crawl https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/. I am curious about how this can be used in the ebook world. Aside from the uses in the AI world, I am fascinated by what is being set up - the opportunity for dynamic pricing on the web via HTTP.
> 
> "For example, a publisher or new organization might want to charge different rates for different paths or content types. How do you introduce dynamic pricing based not only upon demand, but also how many users your AI application has? How do you introduce granular licenses at internet scale, whether for training, inference, search, or something entirely new?"
> 
> Tzviya
> 
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> Tzviya Siegman
> Sustainability Lead/Member Relations
> tzviya@w3.org <mailto:tzviya@w3.org>