[saag] Re: post quantum guidance draft

Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Dec 2025 15:12:13 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.saag
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On 01/12/2025 15:07, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hiya,
>>
>> On 01/12/2025 14:44, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>>> Yes, I think we should provide guidance, but this draft is the wrong
>>> way to do it. Rather, we should provide guidance in the protocols
>>> themselves, which is not inconsistent with registering a lot of code
>>> points (hence tools like "recommended=Y/N").
>>
>> That's implementer guidance and I'm not really sure that
>> IANA column thing is that effective as a tool TBH.
> 
> 
> I'm not really interested in debating that column with you, 

I wasn't trying to debate that:-)

> but I
> I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to WGs having more tools for
> providing deployment guidance. However to the extent to which
> they're not doing so, I don't think this kind of draft is the answer.

Again, that's fair enough, and I'm not arguing strongly
that my draft be published as-is - I'm more interested
in a discussion as to how we could provide some useful
guidance, given the zoo we've created. If that's done some
other way that works, that's fine by me.

Cheers,
S.

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