Ketan Talaulikar has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-cose-dilithium-09: Discuss

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DISCUSS:
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Just some easy to address comments related to references that perhaps rise to 
the level of DISCUSS.

Sections 3 and 5:

The URLs [IANA.jose] and [IANA.cose] are informative references?

Section 8:

Several RFCs here that should be normative or informative references?


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COMMENT:
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Thanks to the authors and the WG for their work on this document. Please find
below some comments and suggestions to improve the clarity of this document.

General:
s/NIST/US NIST and S/FIPS/US NIST FIPS - we want to be clear this is coming
from an US entity

Section 1:

s/draft-ietf-cose-key-thumbprint/RFC9679

Perhaps change "as described in [FIPS-204] with JOSE and COSE" to "as described
in [FIPS-204], in conjunction with JOSE and COSE." ?

Perhaps "can be compared according the procedures..." should be "can be
compared according to the procedures..." ?

Section 3:

Keep the actions for IANA in the IANA considerations sections alone.

Perhaps instead of "This document requests the registration of the following
key types in [IANA.jose]:", how about "This document introduces the following
key types (see section 8.1.x for details):"

This can be done for other similar sentences (in this section as well as
section 5). The URLs [IANA.jose] are better placed in the respective IANA
consideration sub-sections?

s/use of multiple key type/the use of multiple key type

s/key parameters are base64url encoded/the key parameters are base64url encoded

Perhaps, instead of "Some algorithms might require or encourage additional
structure or length checks for associated key type parameters", would this be
more clear - "Some algorithms may require or recommend additional structure or
length checks for associated key type parameters." ? ... not sure what is meant
by encourage here?

Section 5:

Suggest "See the ML-DSA Private Keys section of this document for more
details." change to "See Section 4, ML-DSA Private Keys, for further details."

Perhaps instead of "ML-DSA might not be the best choice for use cases that
require small keys or signatures." it could be "ML-DSA may not be suitable for
use cases requiring small keys or signatures." ?



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