Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance - Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting 03 December, 2025

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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

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]
  • Sandip Dholakia

Meeting Agenda

  • Related to OQS metrics request: Work initiated by Jonathan(from LF) on fixing the LFX insights data of OQS,follow up issue created.
  • PQCP blog on mldsa-native alpha release published, Also posted on linkedin. What about X?
  • Christina: 2026 Mentorship Program update
    • Winter Mentorship (January 5 - April 3) with Matthias K. for mldsa-native and mlkem-native - 1 mentee
    • Summer Mentorship (June 1 - August 28); Call for mentors & mentorship project proposals February 2 - March 20; TAC to review project proposals March 20 - April 3
  • Check in on December 17th availability
  • Project Updates-
    • OQS
    • PQCP
    • CBOMkit

Discussion & Updates

Vice Chair Updates

Aditya provided updates on two key activities:

  1. OQS Metrics Request: Jonathan from the Linux Foundation has begun working on the OQS metrics improvements requested in a previous TAC meeting.

  2. PQCP Blog Publication: The latest PQCP blog on the mldsa-native alpha release was published on both the PQCA website and LinkedIn. Aditya encouraged all attendees to share the LinkedIn post and asked whether cross-posting to X would be appropriate. Christina shared the blog post on X after the call.

2026 Mentorship Program Update

  • Matthias’ mentee successfully completed their recent mentorship and Matthias will extend the program with a new mentee beginning January 5 – April 3.
    • Matthias will prepare a mentorship program blog post for review by next week.
  • Planning is underway for the Summer 2026 mentorship session, scheduled for June 1 – August 28.
    • Call for mentors and project proposals will be open February 2 - March 20.
    • Proposals will be reviewed by the TAC March 20 - April 3.

Project Updates

OQS:

No representatives present.

PQCP (Matthias):

The TAC reviewed progress across PQCP activities:

  • Hanno recently presented at the European PQC Conference, highlighting PQCP progress and community engagement.
  • Continued work is underway on ML native backend verification and supporting project contributions.
  • Matthias shared that the ML native OpenType integration blog post is in progress and will be submitted to the content review team for approval before Christmas.

CBOMkit (Andreas):

Andreas reported that CBOMkit’s Technical Steering Committee is nearly formed, with only final confirmations outstanding.

Next steps include:

  • Adding TSC members to the recurring CBOM Kit TSC meeting
  • Creating a CBOMkit Discord channel specifically for TSC discussions
  • Establishing a new TSC mailing list for easier communication

Andreas will share TSC member email addresses with Christina in order to finalize these last onboarding steps.

Next Steps / Action Items

Action Item Owner Status / Due Date
Send mentorship blog post for review Matthias Next week
Send email addresses of CBOM Kit TSC members Andreas Before next meeting
Set up a CBOM Kit TSC mailing list and add members Christina Before next meeting
Add TSC members to the recurring CBOM Kit TSC meeting Christina Before next meeting
Create a separate Discord channel for CBOM Kit TSC discussions Andreas, Ry Before next meeting
Bring mentorship timeline information to the PQC team Matthias Before next meeting
Send ML native OpenType integration blog post to Content Review Team for approval Matthias Before Christmas

Adjourned: 7:22am PT.