Hi, I think people have very different views on what constitutes “unnecessary work.” For many external SDOs, the TLS WG producing RFCs for NIST FIPS 203–205 is by far the most important work the TLS WG has undertaken since RFC 8446. This is reinforced by several liaison statements the TLS WG has received.
The first goal of the TLS WG is to “improve the applicability and suitability of the TLS family of protocols for use in emerging protocols and use cases.” ISE or AD sponsorship could be a solution. However, there has been significant frustration when attempting to register algorithms for SSH, with some arguing that a working group is required. Ironically, I think draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00 could have been an email. Cheers, John From: Richard Barnes <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 24 February 2026 at 01:56 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [TLS] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt Hi TLS folks, Those who have worked with me know that I hate doing unnecessary work. It occurred to me that the TLS WG has been doing a lot of unnecessary work on drafts that just register crypto algorithms. This draft proposes that we shouldn't do that. Submitted for your consideration, --Richard ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 2:53 PM Subject: New Version Notification for draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt To: Richard Barnes <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> A new version of Internet-Draft draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt has been successfully submitted by Richard Barnes and posted to the IETF repository. Name: draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email Revision: 00 Title: Stop Doing Cryptographic Algorithm Drafts when Email to IANA is All You Need Date: 2026-02-24 Group: Individual Submission Pages: 5 URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email/ HTML: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.html HTMLized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email Abstract: People keep pitching drafts to the TLS Working Group where the only thing the draft does is register a code point for a cryptographic algorithm. Stop doing that. It's unnecessary. Write an email to IANA instead. The IETF Secretariat
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