We actually have RECOMMENDED = Y/N/D and MTI = MUST/SHOULD. I agree wih EKR 
that this is enough.

Stephen Farrell wrote:
>so we ought give such folks guidance to not turn that on
I don't see any reason to give such guidance for the key exchange algorithms in 
draft-connolly-tls-mlkem-key-agreement, which are registered as RECOMMENDED=N.

draft-farrell-tls-pqg-00 states:
>We recommend taking no action at all at this point in time in relation to 
>signatures.
I disagree with such a recommendation. I don't see any reason for such a 
recommendation and migrating PKI takes time.

From: Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com>
Date: Sunday, 15 December 2024 at 21:24
To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie>
Cc: tls@ietf.org <tls@ietf.org>
Subject: [TLS] Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for 
draft-farrell-tls-pqg-00.txt


On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 12:13 PM Stephen Farrell 
<stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie<mailto:stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie>> wrote:

Hiya,

Answering a few points at once:

On 15/12/2024 17:05, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> I don't think it's a good use of the WG's time to put out this kind
> of guidance statement. Rather, we should simply adopt some subset of
> the proposed drafts. The Recommended column in the code point
> registry serves as the TLS WG's recommendation.

I don't think that mechanism is quite sufficient here, for at
least two reasons:

1) if we e.g. add recommended=y for X25519MLKEM768, that'd mean
we now have 5 such groups all with recommended=y so we're still
missing guidance required amongst those which becomes a thing we
do care about whereas we more or less didn't when we only had 4.

2) if someone can do X25519MLKEM768, then they can also do
MLKEM768 which (let's assume) remains recommended=n, so we ought
give such folks guidance to not turn that on (if we end up with
consensus to say that).

I don't agree with either of these points. We already have MTI and
Recommended=Y, which are sufficient to (1) provide interop and
(2) to indicate what the TLS WG thinks is safe. I don't think it's
helpful for us to try to make ever finer-distinctions of either
Recommended=Y or Recommended=N. Moreover, as the
discussion so far shows, trying to draw these distinctions has
a high risk of being an attractive nuisance.

-Ekr

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