[saag] Re: Fragmentation, crypto drafts, and a way forwa rd

Hi Watson!

-----Original Message-----
From: Watson Ladd <[email protected]> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 5:27 PM
To: IETF SAAG <[email protected]>
Subject: [saag] Fragmentation, crypto drafts, and a way forward

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To be absolutely clear: I have been told privately, as well as seen in public emails, that there is a bias towards NIST favored cryptography on the part of IESG members and Security ADs who have intervened to delay or downgrade publication of drafts that describe alternatives to ML-KEM, and that this favors organizations they currently or in the recent past have worked for. I don't think that there are widely used protocols where ML-KEM hybrids or pure would not be an option, nor do I think that diversity would become a major problem: that's why we increasingly opened up the registries in TLS, and I think the market would deal with this. I do think what's happening now is harmful to the general environment of the IETF and creates a great deal of unclarity.

[Roman] There is an implicit COI accusation in the above narrative.  If impropriety in leadership has occurred, please personally file an appeal or encourage the party you are hearing these accusations from to do so to allow the matter to be reviewed.  See Section 6.5 of RFC2026.  We need that for the health and integrity of the IETF standards process.  

Regards,
Roman Danyliw
(as IETF Chair)

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