Dear authors and ipsecme WG,

I like the draft very much. I have some small suggestions:

- "1. Notes of Change" section compares the changes to
"draft-ietf-ipsecme-kem-auth-ikev2*" document, I believe that is a typo and
you mean "draft-ietf-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo*".
- "4.3. Comparison to ML-KEM" subsection says "The performance of FrodoKEM
is not as good as ML-KEM. As shown in Table 1, ...", where in Table 1 the
private key, public key and ciphertext sizes are listed. The wording
"performance of FrodoKEM" makes me believe the software/hardware
performance of the FrodoKEM's algorithms is not as good as ML-KEM. I
suggest changing the wording to something like "space efficiency", or "data
overhead", or something third. Note: I am making this suggestion without
even looking at the software/hardware performance of FrodoKEM and ML-KEM
algorithms, and am just noticing the unclarity between the sentence and the
table.

I followed yesterday's CFRG meeting, and a couple of messages in the chat
mentioned FrodoKEM, and I had some thoughts/questions (as an occasional
participant in ipsecme, cfrg and IETF) that someone on the list may be able
to give their opinion/answer on (I am paraphrasing the questions from my
memory from yesterday):

- There was a message saying cfrg FrodoKEM draft by FrodoKEM team, which is
now in draft-ietf-ipsecme-hybrid-kem-ikev2-frodo-02 as a *normative*
reference, was rejected by cfrg. I tried searching the cfrg mailing list
but didn't find any messages (e.g. from the chairs) saying the cfrg will
not pursue the https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-longa-cfrg-frodokem/
- There were 1 or 2 messages saying that cfrg/IETF should aim to
standardize (or give guidance in case of cfrg) algorithms that are of
importance for international community, and not follow suggestions of
national standardization bodies. I was puzzled because that made me think
the ML-KEM (suggested by a nation A standardization body) was somehow the
sole KEM important for international community, and that IETF (in the
context of the chat discussion during the meeting, where only ipsecme was
mentioned as a WG that has FrodoKEM-related draft) should not spend time
on FrodoKEM (suggested by nation B standardization body)?? My point here is
that I think ipsecme should still continue with the effort of publishing
this draft (in the hope the reference issues get resolved in the meantime,
and also assuming there's enough interest from the WG).

Cheers,
Vukasin Karadzic
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