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[TLS] Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-tls-mlkem-05 (Ends 2025-11-26)

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 24 November 2025 23:28 UTC

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On 24/11/2025 23:24, Salz, Rich wrote:
> We kind of did that implicitly, by marking one as RECOMMENDED Y and the other as N.

For me, RECOMMENDED=N doesn't provide a specific enough signal to
cover this particular case where publishing an RFC even with that
might well disimprove Internet security.

> 
>> Also - what happened to the adopt-but-park plan? Did that get lost
>> in the fog of appeals?
> I thought there was a ruling that adopt-and-park wasn’t a legit action for the extant call for adoption.

You can ignore that - I was confused myself at the time but Watson
quickly put me right.

Cheers,
S.

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