[saag] Re: post quantum guidance draft

Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Dec 2025 08:47:55 -0800
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On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On 01/12/2025 16:16, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > I would suggest that a better way to do
> > that would be to try to get to some consensus about whether there
> > is in fact a problem that needs to be solved and what that problem is,
>
> Yeah, I guess that's why I was puzzled. I think it's obvious
> what the problem is (and that's even described in the draft).
>
I guess someone could claim that the zoo of PQ codepoints we
> can't stop ourselves adding to registries won't damage interop
> but I don't find that at all convincing.
>

I'm actually not convinced that the proliferation of entries
in the registries is a significant interop problem. I agree that
the IETF should only recommend a small number of these,
but as I said, I think that's a problem for WGs.

-Ekr

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