[saag] Re: draft-paulwh-crypto-components-02 ("one of th e reasons")

Eric Rescorla <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM Paul Wouters <paul.wouters=
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM Salz, Rich <rsalz=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>    - One of the reasons I wanted to get such a draft out that I can
>>    point to, is precisely because
>>
>> Security ADs are regularly approached (in private) with requests to AD
>> sponsor some crypto algorithm.
>>
>>
>>
>> That is a reasonable reason, but this draft doesn’t seem to address it.
>> Are you thinking that it does so, albeit indirectly, by pointing out the
>> many criteria that need to be considered?
>>
>>
>>
>> How does this draft help you say no?  Or is the intent that you can say
>> “please address the points here and then I’ll consider it”
>>
>
> As ADs (current and future) have the freedom to accept any draft for AD
> sponsoring, there is no normative text that could be used
> to restrict that.
>

I'm not sure this is true.

Suppose we had a Standards Track RFC which stated that all cryptographic
algorithm specifications had to come with source code; the AD would not
have freedom to AD sponsor one without source code without also updating
that RFC. Or do you think I'm wrong about the process?

-Ekr

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