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

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

I re-read the document. It has zero commentary on the issues about
hybrids vs. pure PQ. It may be hard to reach rough consensus on what
to say about that, but it is a topic where people have significantly
different opinions, so I think we ought say something, for example,
along the lines of, "At the time of writing a significant number of
knowledgeable people consider it better to deploy hybrid KEMS, while
some do dispute that. Opinions may change over time." I'd be happy
but surprised if the WG had consensus to add such text, but we
should. Absent that, I think producing an RFC based on this draft
provides a misleading signal to the community.

Also - what happened to the adopt-but-park plan? Did that get lost
in the fog of appeals?

Cheers,
S.

On 05/11/2025 18:51, Sean Turner via Datatracker wrote:
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> Subject: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-tls-mlkem-05 (Ends 2025-11-26)
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> This message starts a 3-week WG Last Call for this document.
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> Abstract:
>     This memo defines ML-KEM-512, ML-KEM-768, and ML-KEM-1024 as
>     NamedGroups and and registers IANA values in the TLS Supported Groups
>     registry for use in TLS 1.3 to achieve post-quantum (PQ) key
>     establishment.
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