Re: [Cfrg] Adoption call for draft-hoffman-c2pq-02

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Sat, 10 February 2018 16:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Adoption call for draft-hoffman-c2pq-02
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Hi Stephen,

On 10/02/2018 15:46, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> On 10/02/18 14:30, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>> Dear CFRG participants,
>> Based on interest in this topic/document during IETF 100 in Singapore
>> (and based on earlier discussions), CFRG Chairs are asking for any
>> objections to adopting "The Transition from Classical to Post-Quantum
>> Cryptography" (draft-hoffman-c2pq-02) as a CFRG document.
>>
>> Please send your comments by February 24th.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is worthwhile, but it might be. The
> probability that it ends up with something that's not
> worth publishing as an RFC seems fairly high to me.
> 
> So long as adoption doesn't mean a commitment to eventual
> publication of an RFC on this topic, then I don't object.
> If the chairs consider adoption is such a commitment then
> I would be against that.

Adoption doesn't mean commitment to publish. If after doing the work
there is no consensus that the document needs publishing, it will not be
published.

Best Regards,
Alexey