[art] Re: draft-ietf-pquip-hbs-state-02 ietf last call Artart review

[Stavros Kousidis <[e-mail]>]

Dear Jiankang,

Thank you for taking the time to review the document and for your 
helpful feedback.

Regarding your suggestion to add usage scenarios: the draft already 
provides a high-level discussion of typical deployment contexts for 
stateful hash-based signature schemes. In addition, RFC 9802 (Section 
“Use Cases of Stateful HBS”) discusses concrete use cases, including 
their application in X.509. We have also addressed your comment by 
adding references to other standards that recommend or require LMS/HSS 
and/or XMSS support (e.g., CNSA 2.0 and SUIT MTI) in PR #47 
(https://github.com/hbs-guidance/draft-hbs-state/pull/47) rather than 
introducing document-specific usage examples, as such examples tend to 
be highly application-specific and theoretically unbounded.

With respect to adding pseudocode or implementation examples, we believe 
this is out of scope for this document. The draft is intentionally 
focused on conceptual guidance around state and backup management, 
rather than on concrete algorithms or implementation techniques.

Best regards,
On behalf of the authors


On 1/16/26 06:02, Jiankang Yao via Datatracker wrote:
> Document: draft-ietf-pquip-hbs-state
> Title: Hash-based Signatures: State and Backup Management
> Reviewer: Jiankang Yao
> Review result: Almost Ready
>
> I am the assigned ART-ART reviewer for this draft. The Art Area
> Review Team (ART-ART) reviews all IETF documents being processed
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>
> Document: draft-ietf-pquip-hbs-state-02
> Reviewer: Jiankang Yao
> Review Date: 2026-01-16
>
> Summary: Almost Ready.
>
> This document describes Hash-based Signatures: State and Backup Management.
> This document is somewhat complex. It is recommended to add usage scenarios in
> the main text and include pseudocode or implementation examples in the appendix
> to facilitate readers' understanding and comprehension.
>
>