On Wed, 24 Sept 2025 at 10:29, John Mattsson <john.mattsson=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Tschofenig, Hannes wrote:
>
> >I would like to request that the chairs make a consensus call so that we
> can close this issue and move the draft forward.
>
>
> In Madrid we actually had two polls:
>
>     Poll - Should OKP be used for PQC KEM Keys
>
>     Yes 0 / No 5/ No Opinion 7
>
>
>
>     Poll - Should we use AKP
>
>     Yes 5 / No 1 / No Opinion 10
>
>
> As suggested by Brian, my expectation is that the authors update the draft
> to reflect this. Then, we can take the discussion from there.
>

Sure, we will publish the revised draft.

Cheers,
-Tiru


>
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>
>
> *From: *Filip Skokan <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 23 September 2025 at 15:32
> *To: *Brian Campbell <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *Tschofenig, Hannes <[email protected]>, [email protected] <
> [email protected]>
> *Subject: *[jose] Re: Suggestion to conclude the key type discussion in
> the PQC KEM draft
>
> +1 to what Brian said. I brought up the same points in July asking for the
> current draft to reflect the outcomes of Polls taken but alas the draft is
> still using OKP that there was never consensus for and shouldn't have been
> switched to - thread starts here
> <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/jose/Rcqv4rDYPh4BT1wm8fLWn02DILo/>.
>
>
>
> S pozdravem,
> *Filip Skokan*
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Sept 2025 at 23:24, Brian Campbell <bcampbell=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> There might be reason to resurface this discussion but the use of OKP was
> definitely not the “clear winner” at and around the last meeting. There was 
> not
> consensus to switch away from AKP in the first place, and the poll that was
> run on whether to use OKP had a very clear outcome: "Poll - Should OKP be
> used for PQC KEM Keys: Yes 0 / No 5/ No Opinion 7" from
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/minutes-123-jose-202507241500/.
> The draft-ietf-jose-pqc-kem published should reflect that outcome as the
> baseline before any consensus call is made.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM Tschofenig, Hannes <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I have read the mailing list discussion around key types in the PQC KEM
> draft (draft-ietf-jose-pqc-kem). This might seem like an unexciting detail.
> After all, who really cares about the name of the structure in which the
> key is embedded? Yet, quite to my surprise, it has turned out that there
> are multiple views on the subject.
>
>
>
> From what I can see, there is no obvious “clear winner” among the three
> candidates (“OKP”, “AKP”, and a new key type). In fact, it is striking how
> many different key types we already have in the JOSE ecosystem.
>
>
>
> The good news, however, is that whichever option we select, the
> implementation effort is minimal.
>
>
>
> I would request the chairs to make a consensus call so that we can close
> this issue and move on with the draft.
>
>
>
> Ciao
>
> Hannes
>
>
>
>
>
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