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Voting Representative Attendance (Alphabetical by 1st name)

Premier Member Representatives

[x ] Brian Jarvis, Amazon Web Services Inc. [TAC Vice Chair]
[x ] Michael (Max)imilien, IBM [TAC Chair]
[x ] Norman Ashley, Cisco
Sophie Schmieg, Google
[x ] Yarkin Doroz, NVIDIA

### Project Representatives

[x ] Nigel Jones, IBM [PQP]
Thomas Bailleux, SandboxAQ [OQS]

Non-Voting Representative Attendance

LF Staff

[x ] Hart Montgomery
Ry Jones
[x ] Kenny Paul

Other Attendees

Alex Bozarth
Bryan Uhri
Hugo Landau
Jason (US General Services Administration)
Sergio Sa

Agenda

Announcements

Introductions Kenny Paul, Andres Vega, Hugo Ladau

Lifecycle document – voting process

if amendments are needed will be handled via PRs
(Andres) need a method to handle conceptual projects in order to form up.
(Max) Use a “community list” to foster discussions, would typically start as a workgroup and evolve from there
ACTION kenny initiate e-vote for approval

Lifecycle document pending GH issues

A series of github issues opened in the TAC repo related to the doc. Discussion should occur here.
(Brian) some of the issues may be more appropriate for the individual project TSCs to resolve than the TAC.

Tooling working group

#14 Likely to be a “go” need the lifecycle doc to be approved 1st.

Application / Industry working group

#34 Could be best described a full stack for telco adoption - reference implementation basically
This would expand the scope of PQCA’s current focus
WG is really to discuss if doing that is something that we would want to pursue
(Nigel) reached out to some members of GSMA to understand what they may be working on related to this.
(Andres) is this a consortium, a company or what? Need to verify if this is really just an openwash exercise.
Also need to clarify if this is a short term or long term WG. “Industry” could be comprise a lot of perpetual work.

Non-production goals (Andres)

opened issue #44 - would like to see the policy relaxed - as written it could be a deterrent to adoption
(Nigel) could be less black-and-white and more based on transparency and let the adopters decide - if it has been placed into production
liboqs is already adopted by a number of organizations
(Hart) Agree w/ Nigel currently an OQS issue. We want to give users the tools to make well informed decisions .
ACTION Andres to work with Michael to get consensus

NIST doc

Have not planned to make a statement as an organization primarily due to other operational priorities.