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Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Tue, 24 February 2026 02:48 UTC

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Hi,

Yep. I got there.

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/8snCzM6eGDS-3wcLqfOJQ8-DF1c/

thanks,
Rob

On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 4:57 PM Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> wrote:

> Hi TLS folks,
>
> Those who have worked with me know that I hate doing unnecessary work.  It
> occurred to me that the TLS WG has been doing a lot of unnecessary work on
> drafts that just register crypto algorithms.  This draft proposes that we
> shouldn't do that.
>
> Submitted for your consideration,
> --Richard
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: <internet-drafts@ietf.org>
> Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 2:53 PM
> Subject: New Version Notification for
> draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt
> To: Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx>
>
>
> A new version of Internet-Draft
> draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt has been successfully
> submitted by Richard Barnes and posted to the
> IETF repository.
>
> Name:     draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email
> Revision: 00
> Title:    Stop Doing Cryptographic Algorithm Drafts when Email to IANA is
> All You Need
> Date:     2026-02-24
> Group:    Individual Submission
> Pages:    5
> URL:
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt
> Status:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email/
> HTML:
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.html
> HTMLized:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email
>
>
> Abstract:
>
>    People keep pitching drafts to the TLS Working Group where the only
>    thing the draft does is register a code point for a cryptographic
>    algorithm.  Stop doing that.  It's unnecessary.  Write an email to
>    IANA instead.
>
>
>
> The IETF Secretariat
>
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