[openpgp] Re: PQC: Proposed Standard or Informational?

The "Proposed Standard" designation sounds appropriate and desirable to me.
On 6/16/25 11:04 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Hey folks--
>
> One final question as we move the OpenPGP PQC draft toward IETF last
> call.
>
> The draft is currently marked as "Informational", but i am leaning
> toward positioning it as a "Proposed Standard".
>
> I've opened this PR to ask for feedback from the editors:
>
>     https://github.com/openpgp-pqc/draft-openpgp-pqc/pull/219
>
> But if anyone else from the WG has thoughts about this, please feel free
> to weigh in.
>
> As i wrote on the PR:
>
>
> RFC 9580 (OpenPGP) is marked as a Proposed Standard, as was RFC
> 4880 (OpenPGP) and RFC 6637 (ECC in OpenPGP).
>
> By contrast, RFC 5581 (Camellia in OpenPGP) is marked informational.
>
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2026.html#section-4.1 says:
>
>     A Proposed Standard specification is generally stable, has resolved
>     known design choices, is believed to be well-understood, has received
>     significant community review, and appears to enjoy enough community
>     interest to be considered valuable.  However, further experience
>     might result in a change or even retraction of the specification
>     before it advances.
>
> whilehttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2026.html#section-4.2.2 says:
>
>     An "Informational" specification is published for the general
>     information of the Internet community, and does not represent an
>     Internet community consensus or recommendation.  The Informational
>     designation is intended to provide for the timely publication of a
>     very broad range of responsible informational documents from many
>     sources, subject only to editorial considerations and to verification
>     that there has been adequate coordination with the standards process
>     (see section 4.2.3).
>
> I recommend marking this as standards-track, and indicating that its
> aimed at "Proposed Standard".
>
>
> Regards,
>
>          --dkg
>
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