Re: [TLS] Updated EdDSA in TLS drafts

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Hiya,

On 08/06/15 10:52, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> More feedback is appreciated!

My v. high level feedback is that we really don't want
to get too far ahead of cfrg here. They've not yet got
all details of their preferred signature scheme using
that curve defined and it'd be really dumb for any IETF
WG to get ahead of that by accident.

So while working on this draft is a fine thing, I don't
think we want to get to IETF LC for things like this until
after cfrg have figured out their preferred signature
scheme. (And the cfrg chairs tell me that ought be done
soon - in a few months.)

Note that waiting until the cfrg position is clear
does not mean that the IETF has to mindlessly adopt what
cfrg have done, but we won't want to ignore their work
either. And fwiw, I guess I'd take the same position for
any work item for almost any new ECC work for the moment.
Since cfrg are nearly done and seem to be making progress
now, pre-empting their decisions wouldn't be a good plan.

Cheers,
S.