Re: [MLS] Progress update; cancel MLS meeting at IETF 111?

MLS group,

We're going to cancel the IETF meeting next week and look into setting up
an interim in the near future.

Best
Nick & Sean

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:56 AM Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We MLS protocol spec editors wanted to provide an update on plans and
> progress as we approach the IETF meeting.  The short version here is: We
> should probably cancel the MLS meeting at IETF in favor of a meeting about
> a month later.
>
> On the interop front: The MLSpp and OpenMLS teams have been having
> periodic interop calls, and are getting close to interop.  As of this
> writing, the two stacks are interoperating on all test vectors except the
> TreeKEM test vector.  The next phase is to verify compatibility on protocol
> operations, which we plan to ramp up work on in August, with a goal of
> getting verified interop by the end of the month.  Other implementations
> are of course welcome to join in!  We are coordinating on Wire; please let
> me know if we should add you to the channel.
>
> On the spec front: The last interim flagged several issues we had where
> the authors were going to propose a way forward, and we haven’t made
> progress on any of them.  We are planning to accelerate work on this in
> August, with a goal of having most of the outstanding PRs and issues done
> by about the same time as the interop work. Obviously, please file any
> remaining PRs/issues ASAP.
>
> With all that, it looks like we’ll be in a good position to issue WGLC in
> ~September.  Instead of meeting in a couple of weeks at the IETF, it would
> probably be more effective to meet at the end of August / early September
> to look at any last lessons learned from interop testing, and any
> non-trivial PR/issue resolutions that need WG attention.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard and Raphael
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