Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 21 May, 2025

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**Voting Representative Attendance (Alphabetical by 1st name)**

Premier Member Representatives

Brian Jarvis, Amazon Web Services Inc. [TAC Chair]
Nicklas Körtge (IBM Research Zurich) - Not attended
Norman Ashley, Cisco (Not attended)
Sophie Schmieg, Google (Not attended)
Yarkin Doroz, NVIDIA
Michael Maximilien (IBM)

Project Representatives

Nigel Jones, IBM [PQCP]
Spencer Wilson, U Waterloo [OQS]

Non-Voting Representative Attendance

Joe Livingston (IBM)

LF Staff

Hart Montgomery (not attended)
Balaji Ethirajulu

Other Attendees

Aditya Koranga (CORAN Labs) (TAC Vice chair)
Matvii Kistaiev (IntellectEU) - Not attended
Miguel Diaz Gonçalves (Portugal customs & Tax authority)
Angel Camacho (Not attended)

Introduction of 1st time attendees

Announcements

Brian Jarvis mentioned that the last TAC minutes of the meeting (4/30) is in Github for review and asked TAC members to review so that we can sign off.

Jarvis also stated that he was working with Hart Montgomery to get an LF staff to present the LFX tool to the TAC team. Kieran Mcdermott from LF will present the LFX insights tool capabilities to TAC on June 4th meeting.

Jarvis asked Ethirajulu about the previous outreach committee meeting. Ethirajulu stated that we did not have much participation during the last meeting. Only Nick from NVIDIA joined the meeting and the LF team explained about the outreach committee functions to Nick.

Ethirajulu stated that he is discussing with internal LF teams regarding Linkedin accounts and social media handles.

Blogpost discussions: Jarvis brought up the blogpost excel sheet that Ethirajulu shared with the TAC. Ethirajulu explained that he took a first short at blog strategy, topics and release cadence and mentioned that it is up to TAC and TSC teams to decide the blog topics and cadence to release the blogs. Once the blogs are written, LF can publish the blogs in the PQCA website.

Wiki pages: Aditya mentioned that we could organize a wiki page similar to few other LF projects. The TAC team discussed pros and cons of Github and wiki pages. Spencer Wilson mentioned that Github works well for TSC as many of them are technical developers. One key point is, the team felt that we can not have information in two different places, some in Github and some in Wiki.
Action: Ethirajulu will discuss internally with the LF team and get back.

The TAC team also discussed the project lifecycle review process. Spencer Wilson will also discuss this subject with TSC teams.

PQCA calendar issue - Nigel Jones

Nigel Jones mentioned that in the PQCA calendar there is a pending issue. Basically, old google calendar (subscribe) is not working. Jones explained that iCAL (blue button) works. He asked LF to remove the “you can also subscribe to the google calendar” and instead add “click iCAL” button.

Action - Ethirajulu took the action to fix this.

OQS Update -Spencer Wilson

In the waterloo university, summer student internship is ongoing under the supervision of Doug. Spencer is also helping this initiative.
They are looking at implementing slh.dsa and getting that included in lib OQS and hence the provider.
There is ongoing work on general improvements of libOQS. The team is working with outside collaborators on improving bench marking and some text coverage.
In terms of releases, there is 0.90 release of OQS provider up for release. After a week or so, it will be released.

PQCP Update -Nigel Jones

The meeting times are reverted back to older times.
TSC elections need to be conducted. No one came forward to nominate themselves. Jones has spoken to few folks and TSC team will discuss tomorrow in their meeting

Tools WG Update -Nicklas Kortge

No update this week.

Old Business

New Business

Open Action Items / Issues Review

Ethirajulu will check with LF team regarding wiki and social media channels - Linkedin and other handles
TAC and TSC team will plan their blog strategy - topics/content, and release cadence of blogs. Once the Blog is reviewed and approved by TAC/TSC, Ethirajulu will plan to publish it on our PQCA page.