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

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Hi Paul,

On 25/02/2026 19:49, Paul Wouters wrote:
>      The working group last call for pure ML-KEM has concluded, thanks to
>      those that participated in the discussion. In summary, we do not have
>      consensus to publish the document as is.
> 
>      The largest number of participants wanted to publish the document as
>      is, however there was also a significant number that wanted changes
>      to the document before publication and a small, but vocal, number of
>      participants that do not want the document to be published at all.
>      There were several issues raised, but the main area of contention was
>      around having a statement on the security and applicability of this
>      mechanism versus the hybrid key mechanisms.
> 
>      Given this, the chairs will move the document back to the "WG Document"
>      state and ask the author to work on resolving the issues brought up on the
>      list including text to address concerns that there are reasons to prefer
>      hybrid over the pure approach. The chairs will then redo a working group
>      last call to see if there is rough consensus for publishing this document.

I'm still at a loss as to how the above doesn't map to the current
WGLC being just a normal WGLC. And I don't see how that text maps
to a WGLC limited to any specific aspects of the draft. Maybe there's
some miscommunication somewhere but I certainly did not interpret
the above as meaning some part(s) of the draft were considered to have
passed the first WGLC.

Cheers,
S.