[TLS] Re: [EXT] Re: Complaint to chairs regarding false claim of consensus to issue an RFC for draft-ietf-tls-mldsa

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Wed, 06 May 2026 01:13 UTC

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From: Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 May 2026 18:13:34 -0700
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On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL <
uri@ll.mit.edu> wrote:

> > I'm not mad or anything,
>
> I can’t express how happy this reassurance makes me.
>


Sounds like not much.

But call me back when you've managed Mozilla's NSS and Rust teams. :)

That's a lot different from an academic task. After all, it's rough
consensus and running code. Both approaches are valuable.

thanks,
Rob