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

[Sean Mullan <[e-mail]>]

I support adoption. We are working on a Java implementation of MTC for 
the JDK and many of the issues and use cases in this draft are relevant.

--Sean

On 9/30/26 10:32 AM, Thom Wiggers wrote:
> Hi all, At this moment we have not received that many responses yet to 
> this call for adoption: there are 380+ people on this mailing list so 
> I would like to hear a little bit more. Please also note that 
> supporting a call for adoption means that
> 
> Hi all,
>
> At this moment we have not received that many responses yet to this 
> call for adoption: there are 380+ people on this mailing list so I 
> would like to hear a little bit more.
>
> Please also note that supporting a call for adoption means that you 
> think that what’s discussed in the draft is worth talking about in the 
> working group. It does not mean that you support (all of the) the 
> current content of the draft or that you think the draft should be 
> published as RFC as is or even at all.
>
> So TL;DR: please respond, positively or negatively, if you think that 
> the working group should put “MTC use cases outside of WebPKI” on its 
> agenda.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thom Wiggers
>
>> Op 30 sep 2026, om 16:26 heeft tirumal reddy <[e-mail]> het 
>> volgende geschreven:
>>
>> I support adoption of the draft.
>>
>> -Tiru
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Sept 2026 at 18:47, Bas Westerbaan 
>> <bas=[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>     I think it's good to have a document where we think through how
>>     MTC can be used in use cases other than the WebPKI.
>>
>>     The present draft is a bit in a weird spot mostly defining a
>>     bunch of stuff including a landmark distribution method. That
>>     should go in another document. But it's great these things get
>>     bubbled up by thinking about it.
>>
>>     I support adoption. (Voting for the task, not the document as it is.)
>>
>>     On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 10:13 AM Thom Wiggers via Datatracker
>>     <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>         Please reply to this message and indicate whether or not you
>>         support adoption
>>         of this Internet-Draft by the plants WG. Comments to explain
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>>         https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-gray-plants-mtc-deploy-use-cases-01.html
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