{"profile":"tct-1","llm_url":"https://llmpages.org/llm/","canonical_url":"https://llmpages.org/","post_id":17,"post_type":"page","title":"The Collaboration Tunnel for the AI Web","modified":"2025-11-13T15:06:09+00:00","published":"2025-10-10T18:01:00+00:00","word_count":335,"slug":"home","excerpt":"The Collaboration Tunnel (TCT) Efficient, verifiable content delivery for AI crawlers. Reduce bandwidth by 83%, tokens by 86%. The Trusted Collaboration Tunnel protocol enables efficient machine-readable content delivery through bidirectional discovery, template-invariant fingerprinting, and sitemap-first optimization. An open, royalty-free standard. Get WordPress Plugin (Free) View Live Validator Measured Results from 970+ Production URLs 83% Bandwidth","author":{"id":1,"name":"ansateza","url":"https://llmpages.org/author/ansateza/"},"image":null,"images":null,"headings":[{"level":2,"text":"The Collaboration Tunnel (TCT)","anchor":null},{"level":2,"text":"Measured Results from 970+ Production URLs","anchor":null},{"level":2,"text":"How It Works: 4-Part Protocol","anchor":null},{"level":2,"text":"Production Sites (100% Compliant)","anchor":null},{"level":2,"text":"An Open, Royalty-Free Standard","anchor":null},{"level":2,"text":"IETF Standards Track","anchor":null},{"level":2,"text":"Get Started","anchor":null},{"level":3,"text":"83% Bandwidth Savings","anchor":null},{"level":3,"text":"86% Token Reduction","anchor":null},{"level":3,"text":"90%+ Skip Rate","anchor":null},{"level":3,"text":"970+ URLs","anchor":null},{"level":3,"text":"8,158 GWh/year","anchor":null},{"level":3,"text":"1. Bidirectional Discovery","anchor":null},{"level":3,"text":"2. Template-Invariant Fingerprinting","anchor":null},{"level":3,"text":"3. Conditional Request Discipline","anchor":null},{"level":3,"text":"4. Sitemap-First Verification","anchor":null}],"categories":null,"tags":null,"content":"The Collaboration Tunnel for the AI Web\n\nThe Collaboration Tunnel (TCT) Efficient, verifiable content delivery for AI crawlers. Reduce bandwidth by 83%, tokens by 86%. The Trusted Collaboration Tunnel protocol enables efficient machine-readable content delivery through bidirectional discovery, template-invariant fingerprinting, and sitemap-first optimization. An open, royalty-free standard. Get WordPress Plugin (Free) View Live Validator Measured Results from 970+ Production URLs 83% Bandwidth Savings 103 KB → 17.7 KB average per fetch 86% Token Reduction 13,900 → 1,960 tokens for AI processing 90%+ Skip Rate Unchanged content detected via ETag 970+ URLs Across 3 production sites with 100% compliance 8,158 GWh/year Potential energy savings at 10% adoption How It Works: 4-Part Protocol 1. Bidirectional Discovery C-URL contains: <link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application/json\" href=\"M-URL\"> M-URL responds: Link: <C-URL>; rel=\"canonical\" Verifiable handshake prevents URL guessing 2. Template-Invariant Fingerprinting Content normalized (strip HTML, CSS, JS) SHA-256 hash → ETag header Same content = same hash, regardless of theme changes 3. Conditional Request Discipline Client sends: If-None-Match: \"sha256-abc123...\" Server responds: 304 Not Modified (zero body) 90%+ of requests skip full fetch 4. Sitemap-First Verification /llm-sitemap.json lists all URLs + hashes Client compares local cache vs sitemap Only fetch changed content Zero-fetch optimization Production Sites (100% Compliant) wellbeing-support.com (400 URLs, 10/10) omacedonii.com (45 URLs, 10/10) bestdemotivationalposters.com (500 URLs, 9/10) Test Your Implementation: llmpages.org/validator An Open, Royalty-Free Standard The Collaboration Tunnel Protocol (TCT) is an open standard designed to build a more efficient and sustainable web for the AI era. The core protocol, as defined in draft-jurkovikj-collab-tunnel, is and always will be available for anyone to implement under a perpetual, irrevocable, Royalty-Free (RF) license. There is no commercial licensing fee for implementing the TCT standard. Our full, official IPR disclosure is available for public review on the IETF Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/7074/ Our goal is to foster a vibrant, open ecosystem around a free and universal standard. The open-source reference implementations (WordPress, Cloudflare, Python) are provided to accelerate adoption. IETF Standards Track Target: IETF 125 (March 2026) | Working Group: GREEN (energy efficiency) Network savings: 0.06 kWh/GB reduced | AI inference savings: 0.000187 kWh/token reduced Get Started WordPress Plugin Cloudflare Worker Validator","hash":"sha256-a4c892f53402bc0e8cfa1be4c96637a97cb3e71ab9b9873c459c19d4890591f9"}