[TLS] Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-tls-mlkem-05 (Ends 2026-02-27)

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 22/02/2026 01:01, Salz, Rich wrote:
> It wouldn’t avoid the controversy, it would just concentrate it in
> one place. And since it would be IETF-wide recommendation, not just
> TLS, SSH, etc., I’d expect the temperature to be even hotter, and
> the odds of getting an RFC published to be zero.

Well, consider me a skeptical-and-naive optimist:-)

I think it'd actually be easier overall to have the discussion
and reach conclusions in a more general setting, compared with
doing it all N times. I also think it'd be better if we have a
level of consistency in our recommendations for many protocols.

Cheers,
S.