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[saag] Re: post quantum guidance draft

Deirdre Connolly <durumcrustulum@gmail.com> Mon, 01 December 2025 20:58 UTC

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> I'm actually not convinced that the proliferation of entries in the
registries is a significant interop problem. I agree that the IETF should
only recommend a small number of these,
but as I said, I think that's a problem for WGs.

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On Mon, Dec 1, 2025, 11:52 AM Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
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>> On 01/12/2025 16:16, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>> > I would suggest that a better way to do
>> > that would be to try to get to some consensus about whether there
>> > is in fact a problem that needs to be solved and what that problem is,
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>> Yeah, I guess that's why I was puzzled. I think it's obvious
>> what the problem is (and that's even described in the draft).
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> I guess someone could claim that the zoo of PQ codepoints we
>> can't stop ourselves adding to registries won't damage interop
>> but I don't find that at all convincing.
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> I'm actually not convinced that the proliferation of entries
> in the registries is a significant interop problem. I agree that
> the IETF should only recommend a small number of these,
> but as I said, I think that's a problem for WGs.
>
> -Ekr
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