Re: [saag] About the "Draft text for a PQ Maintenance WG"

[Roman Danyliw <[e-mail]>]

Hi!

We’ve heard this confusion on using the “maintenance” short hand to characterize this potential body of work.  The intent was what Panos described – a short hand where the “maintenance” was on existing IETF protocol to allow it to benefit from PQC mechanisms.

The proposed, templated charter language more precisely captures the intent -- “The [Planned WG Name] working group ([Planned WG Acronym]) is chartered as a WG to analyze, adapt or update IETF protocols, registries, and associated code points with PQ cryptographic mechanisms.” (https://github.com/rdanyliw/ietf-pq-maintenance/blob/main/pqm-charter.md).  I’ve removed “PQ maintenance” from the header of the templated charter.  It now reads “PQC Agility WG”.  The term didn’t appear in the charter text itself.  However, to eliminate all possible confusion I also the one instance of maintenance by s/protocol maintenance/protocol changes/.

Roman

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Subject: RE: [saag] About the "Draft text for a PQ Maintenance WG"

Maybe maintenance is the wrong word, but the point is to have a WG for orphaned (without a WG) protocols like CURDLE was for Curve25519/448.

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I find the concept of post-quantum *maintenance* very strange.