> On Feb 12, 2026, at 6:50 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 1. The first is mostly a trivial choice of terminology question:
> 
>    (Motivation):
>    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-mlkem-07#section-1.1
> 
>    FIPS 203 (ML-KEM) [FIPS203] is a FIPS standard for post-quantum
>    [RFC9794] key establishment via a lattice-based key encapsulation
>    mechanism (KEM).
> 
>  Would ML-KEM be better described as a "NIST standard", or is it better
>  (as written) to say that FIPS 203 is a "FIPS standard"?  Perhaps:
> 
>    ML-KEM [FIPS203] is a NIST standard for post-quantum [RFC9794] key
>    establishment via a lattice-based key encapsulation mechanism (KEM).

Maybe just spell out FIPS the first time it is used.

FIPS = Federal Information Processing Standard

Russ
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