[Plants] Call for adoption: draft-gray-plants-mtc-deploy-use-cases-01 (Ends 2026-10-02)

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This message starts a plants WG Call for Adoption of:
draft-gray-plants-mtc-deploy-use-cases-01

This Working Group Call for Adoption ends on 2026-10-02

Abstract:
   Merkle Tree Certificates (MTC) I-D.ietf-plants-merkle-tree-certs has
   been defined for the use case of the WebPKI.  In this document we
   explore when and how MTC in parts or full can be used in different
   use cases.  Some of this use-cases may provide benefit for private
   PKI usage.

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