[Qirg] Discrete/Continuous variable encodings

[Wojciech Kozlowski <[e-mail]>]

Dear QIRG,

One point that was raised on the call today was whether it's a goal to support
continuous variable qubits as well as discrete variable qubits.

The consensus appeared to be that something should be included, but that it's
quite a heavy topic on its own.

Last year, Patrick Gelard, did submit a PR for the draft in which he proposed
that such encoding diversity be a goal so I think that's the best point to
start a discussion from (look for lines 1111-1127): 
https://github.com/Wojtek242/draft-irtf-qirg-principles/pull/1/files

I was initially reluctant to include this section (and I haven't so far) as it
appeared to me that it goes too deep into the physical layer. If CV vs DV can
be kept entirely within the hardware and there is no reason to expose it beyond
that, it might be best to keep it out of the draft. If it does somehow affect
the protocol design landscape then I think it's a point worth mentioning.

Question to the community:
1. Is it worth having something about CV vs DV? Does it have an impact on the
protocol design landscape?
2. If it is, does the contribution above cover the subject?

Cheers,
Wojtek