[saag] Re: draft-paulwh-crypto-components-02

Christian Huitema <[email protected]>
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Your version 2 draft revises the 6th paragraph in section 3.4 to say: 
'Working groups setting up such registries should strongly consider 
mandating that decisions on setting the values in these columns to 
anything other than "MAY" require a standards track RFC. That is, 
Independent Stream and IRTF RFCs would not be able to set or change the 
values in such a table in an IANA registry.'

I am not sure I understand the paragraph. Did you mean that the WG 
should think twice before asking the IANA to only update the registry if 
the changed is detailed in a standard track RFC? That WG that define a 
registry with options such as "may implement, should implement, must 
implement" should not require a standard track RFC if developers are not 
required to implement the algorithm (i.e., "may implement")? Or that WG 
should absolutely ask the IANA to require a standard track RFC before 
describing an algorithm as "mandatory to implement"? Or some combination?

By the way, I would suggest sticking to terms like optional and 
mandatory instead of using circumlocution such as `other than MAY`. I 
understand that using MAY and MUST as nouns is common jargon in the 
IETF, but it is rather puzzling for outsiders.

-- Christian Huitema


On 2/11/2025 1:33 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. Thanks for the reviews of draft-paulwh-crypto-components-01. PaulW and I have made some small but significant updates based on those reviews to clarify the role of working groups for registries. The diffs are at:
>     https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-paulwh-crypto-components-02
>
> More reviews are welcome. We may be heading toward SAAG consensus, at which point we can take it to the wider IETF community.
>
> --Paul Hoffman
>
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