Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 19 November, 2025

View Recording Recordings are also available on your Open Profile page under Past Meetings
Join the meeting
PQCA Meeting Calendar
Discord Server

Antitrust Policy Notice

Linux Foundation meetings involve participation by industry competitors, and it is the intention of the Linux Foundation to conduct all of its activities in accordance with applicable antitrust and competition laws. It is therefore extremely important that attendees adhere to meeting agendas, and be aware of, and not participate in, any activities that are prohibited under applicable US state, federal or foreign antitrust and competition laws. Examples of types of actions that are prohibited at Linux Foundation meetings and in connection with Linux Foundation activities are described in the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy available at linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy. If you have questions about these matters, please contact your company counsel, or if you are a member of the Linux Foundation, feel free to contact Andrew Updegrove of the firm of Gesmer Updegrove LLP, which provides legal counsel to the Linux Foundation.

Voting Representative Attendance (Alphabetical by 1st name)

Premier Member Representatives

  • Brian Jarvis, Amazon Web Services Inc. [TAC Chair]
  • JP Lomas, QRL
  • Michael Maximilien, IBM
  • Nicklas Körtge, IBM Research Zurich
  • Norman Ashley, Cisco
  • Yarkin Doroz, NVIDIA

### Project Representatives

  • Matthias Kannwischer, TSR
  • Hanno Becker, PQCP

Non-Voting Representative Attendance

Member Companies

  • Andreas Schade, IBM
  • Joe Livingston, IBM
  • Prevek Sharma, University of Waterloo

LF Staff

  • Christina Harter
  • Hart Montgomery
  • Min Yu
  • Ry Jones

Other Attendees

  • Aditya Koranga, NgKore [TAC Vice Chair]
  • Abner Rodriguez-Guadalupe, NetStrike Labs
  • Miguel Diaz Goncalves

  • [x] S Biplab Raut, AMD

    Meeting Agenda

  • Related to OQS metrics request, opened a GH Issue with LFX Insights requesting them to look into the data quality concerns that were raised. No response yet on it: https://github.com/linuxfoundation/insights/issues/1375
  • PQCP blog proposal for announcing mldsa-native, to be reviewed by content-review committee.
  • Check in on December availability.
  • Christina: Program Updates:

Discussion & Updates

Introduction of 1st Time Attendees

The TAC welcomed Biplab from AMD, who provided a brief introduction and shared their background with the group.

OQS Metrics and LFX Insights

The team reviewed ongoing discussions around OQS metrics and the LFX Insights dashboard, focusing on data quality and relevance. Concerns raised by the OQS project regarding inaccurate metrics had been relayed to the LFX team, who responded with a remediation plan to improve data reliability.

Brian expressed appreciation for the responsiveness and emphasized the importance of providing reliable, “out-of-the-box” metrics for projects. He noted that the TAC will revisit LFX Insights progress and OQS-related concerns during the next meeting.

mldsa-native Blog Post Review and Publication Process

Christina confirmed that the mldsa-native blog post draft is currently under review by the content review team and is on track for publication on Tuesday, November 25.

The TAC reaffirmed the standard one-week content review period before publication. Brian noted that the improved content review workflow has significantly streamlined the process compared to earlier practices.

Upcoming Meeting Schedule

  • December 3: Aditya will lead the meeting in Brian’s absence.

  • December 17: The TAC will decide on December 3 whether to hold the December 17 meeting, given holiday schedules.

  • December 31: The TAC agreed to cancel the December 31 meeting due to the holidays.

GitHub Open Issues Review

The TAC reviewed outstanding issues from the previous retrospective:

  • Brian agreed that the new issue-based meeting agenda process has improved efficiency and transparency.
  • Brian plans to resume sending agendas in advance, following his Monday sync meetings with Aditya.
  • The PR review timeline was discussed, but no new actions were assigned.
  • The TAC held an in-depth discussion on developer education content during the 10/22 TAC meeting.
  • Christina shared that the blog author spotlight feature is complete, with a new post from Matthias scheduled for release next Tuesday.
  • Christina confirmed The content review process has been fully documented: Content review process added to the TAC repo; PQCA wiki updated with new blog submission guidelines; Submission form updated to reflect the new process.
  • Several retrospective-related issues were closed; comments were added to the three remaining open issues for next steps.

Open follow-up items from those issues include:

  • Hart will share a content outline for a new educational/training program.
  • Hart suggested exploring LLM-assisted social media post generation, with staged review before publication.
  • The TAC continues to explore increased Discord usage for community engagement.

Project Updates

OQS

Norman reported that LibOQS has released a new version, and work continues on updates to the OQS Provider.

PQCP

Hanno shared that mldsa-native has reached alpha release, and PQCP continues to develop growth plans across its sub-projects.

CBOMkit

Christina reported that CBOMkit Project Onboarding is nearly complete, with formation of the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) as the final outstanding step.

As no representatives from CBOMKit attended the call, no further updates were provided.

Next Steps / Action Items

Action Item Owner Status / Due Date
Follow up on LFX Insights improvements and review OQS concerns Brian Next TAC meeting
Resume sending meeting agendas in advance after Monday meetings with Aditya Brian Ongoing
Send out education-related information to TAC Hart Next week
Close out completed retrospective issues and add follow-up items post-meeting Christina Complete
Cancel the December 31 meeting Christina Complete

Adjourned: 7:47am PT.