[TLS] Re: New Liaison Statement, "Liaison communication to IETF regarding draft-ietf-tls-mlkem"

[Rob Sayre <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 4:22 PM Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>
> Hiya,
>
> On 07/04/2026 21:35, Paul Wouters wrote:
> >
> > The contention is whether it should be published now or later, when
> > classic protections gain us little to no benefit.
>
>  From my POV, that mischaracterises the contention. I think
> the contentious issue is whether or not to publish this with
> or without caveats as to when to use it, and how to encode
> any such caveats in RFC/BCP text.
>

There are two things here:

1) The IEEE group wants an RFC. They can advocate for this just as anyone
else can. (yes!)

2) The IETF must do an RFC because the IEEE has made a requirement (no!)

That cedes sovereignty, and we shouldn't do that.

thanks,
Rob