I agree with Ilari about the size of the registry. OTOH, I think it would
be good
to avoid confusion by creating a large number of code points which we know
will be abandoned soonish.

-Ekr


On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:19 PM Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusva...@welho.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:44:18PM +0000, Kampanakis, Panos wrote:
> > ACK, thx all. So we should refrain from defining such “point-in-time”
> > codepoints for other needed long-term algorithm combinations to not
> > waste registry space. Only absolutely necessary codepoints should be
> > registered.
>
> That registry has >64,000 free codepoints. I don't see there being
> anywhere close enough individual registrations to fill that up, no
> matter how loose the criteria are.
>
> However, with post-quantum, there is another reason to be careful:
> The shares are so large that the client effecively only has one shot.
>
>
> Some sort of systematic registrations reseving large chunks of space
> is the only way I can foresee the registry being seriously depleted.
> In contect of TLS groups, No such registrations exist currently, nor
> have I seen proposals for such thing.
>
>
>
>
> -Ilari
>
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