Yes, true!

Nadim Kobeissi
Symbolic Software • https://symbolic.software

> On 24 Feb 2026, at 10:25 AM, Felix Linker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Sorry to be pedantic, but shouldn't the charter define what can and cannot be 
> adopted? Adding 1-2 sentences to the charter paragraph starting with "The 
> third goal..." could have the same effect as this document, but be one 
> document less.
> 
> Best,
> Felix
> 
> Am Di., 24. Feb. 2026 um 01:56 Uhr schrieb Richard Barnes <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>> Hi TLS folks,
>> 
>> Those who have worked with me know that I hate doing unnecessary work.  It 
>> occurred to me that the TLS WG has been doing a lot of unnecessary work on 
>> drafts that just register crypto algorithms.  This draft proposes that we 
>> shouldn't do that.
>> 
>> Submitted for your consideration,
>> --Richard
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Date: Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 2:53 PM
>> Subject: New Version Notification for 
>> draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt
>> To: Richard Barnes <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> 
>> 
>> A new version of Internet-Draft
>> draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt has been successfully
>> submitted by Richard Barnes and posted to the
>> IETF repository.
>> 
>> Name:     draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email
>> Revision: 00
>> Title:    Stop Doing Cryptographic Algorithm Drafts when Email to IANA is 
>> All You Need
>> Date:     2026-02-24
>> Group:    Individual Submission
>> Pages:    5
>> URL:      
>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.txt
>> Status:   
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email/
>> HTML:     
>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email-00.html
>> HTMLized: 
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-barnes-tls-this-could-have-been-an-email
>> 
>> 
>> Abstract:
>> 
>>    People keep pitching drafts to the TLS Working Group where the only
>>    thing the draft does is register a code point for a cryptographic
>>    algorithm.  Stop doing that.  It's unnecessary.  Write an email to
>>    IANA instead.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The IETF Secretariat
>> 
>> 
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