IMHO, placing the documents on GitHub would be perfect, and quite sufficient. 

Please make sure to post the name of the repo here. ;/)

I leave it to others to decide whether they'd want copies of today PDF files 
sent to the mailing list directly.

Regards,
Uri

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 17, 2019, at 01:03, Paul Yang <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Good points.
> 
> The good news is that we have found some English PDFs of SM2, including the 
> missing part 1 and part 3. Will continue to find English translations of 
> other SM standards mentioned in the draft.
> 
> So, if we host a free website, say on Github or so, to provide those docs, is 
> it convenient for you guys? Or should we just drop the   PDF files to this 
> mailing list as attachments?
> 
>> On Aug 16, 2019, at 10:58 PM, Rene Struik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Arguably, "national" crypto specifications garnish more stature if these are 
>> made available to the pubic by that standard-setting body itself (who, 
>> thereby, acts as its authoritative source), without deference to a third 
>> party (that may, independently from the originator, enforce document control 
>> [e.g., by effectuating technical changes or enforcing controlled 
>> dissemination]). 
>> 
>> Since your draft introducing SM cipher suites with TLS1.3 appeals to the 
>> authority of a standard-setting authority, easy availability of the full and 
>> accredited technical documentation to the IETF community helps in scrutiny 
>> and, e.g., evaluating claims in the security considerations section.
>> 
>>> On 8/16/2019 3:06 AM, Kepeng Li wrote:
>>> Hi Rene and all,
>>> 
>>> > Since the ISO documents are not available to the general 
>>> > public without payment, it would be helpful to have a freely available 
>>> > document (in English) from an authoritative source. Having such a 
>>> > reference available would be helpful to the IETF community (and 
>>> > researchers).
>>> About the references to ISO documens, I think it is a general issue for 
>>> IETF drafts.
>>> 
>>> How does the other IETF drafts make the references to ISO documents? ISO 
>>> documents are often referenced by IETF drafts.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Kind Regards
>>> Kepeng
>>> ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
>>> Re: [TLS] Draft for SM cipher suites used in TLS1.3
>>> 
>>> Rene Struik <[email protected]> Thu, 15 August 2019 15:34 UTCShow header
>>> 
>>> Hi Paul:
>>> 
>>> I tried and look up the documents GMT.0009-2012 and GBT.32918.5-2016 on 
>>> the (non-secured) websites you referenced, but only found Chinese 
>>> versions (and Chinese website navigation panels [pardon my poor language 
>>> skills here]). Since the ISO documents are not available to the general 
>>> public without payment, it would be helpful to have a freely available 
>>> document (in English) from an authoritative source. Having such a 
>>> reference available would be helpful to the IETF community (and 
>>> researchers). Please note that BSI provides its specifications in German 
>>> and English, so as to foster use/study by the community. If the Chinese 
>>> national algorithms would be available in similar form, this would serve 
>>> a similar purpose.
>>> 
>>> FYI - I am interested in full details and some time last year I tried to 
>>> download specs, but only Parts 2, 4, and 5 were available [1], [2], [3], 
>>> not Parts 1 and 3.
>>> 
>>> Best regards, Rene
>>> 
>>> [1] China ECC - Public Key Cryptographic Algorithm SM2 Based on ECC - 
>>> Part 5 - Parameter Definition (SEMB, July 24, 2018)
>>> [2] China ECC - Public Key Cryptographic Algorithm SM2 Based on ECC - 
>>> Part 2 - Digital Signature Algorithm (SEMB, July 24, 2018)
>>> [3] China ECC - Public Key Cryptographic Algorithm SM2 Based on ECC - 
>>> Part 4 - Public Key Encryption Algorithm (SEMB, July 24, 2018)
>>> 
>>> On 8/15/2019 10:16 AM, Paul Yang wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > I have submitted a new internet draft to introduce the SM cipher 
>>> > suites into TLS 1.3 protocol.
>>> >
>>> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yang-tls-tls13-sm-suites-00
>>> >
>>> > SM cryptographic algorithms are originally a set of Chinese national 
>>> > algorithms and now have been (or being) accepted by ISO as 
>>> > international standards, including SM2 signature algorithm, SM3 hash 
>>> > function and SM4 block cipher. These algorithms have already been 
>>> > supported some time ago by several widely used open source 
>>> > cryptographic libraries including OpenSSL, BouncyCastle, Botan, etc.
>>> >
>>> > Considering TLS1.3 is being gradually adopted in China's internet 
>>> > industry, it's important to have a normative definition on how to use 
>>> > the SM algorithms with TLS1.3, especially for the mobile internet 
>>> > scenario. Ant Financial is the company who develops the market leading 
>>> > mobile app 'Alipay' and supports payment services for Alibaba 
>>> > e-commerce business. We highly are depending on the new TLS1.3 
>>> > protocol for both performance and security purposes. We expect to have 
>>> > more deployment of TLS1.3 capable applications in China's internet 
>>> > industry by this standardization attempts.
>>> >
>>> > It's very appreciated to have comments from the IETF TLS list :-)
>>> >
>>> > Many thanks!
>>> >
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>>> 
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> 
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