TSC 2025-11-06 Meeting Minutes

Signed-off-by: Matthias J. Kannwischer <matthias@kannwischer.eu>

Author: mkannwischer

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+# 2025-11-06: TSC Minutes
+
+## Agenda
+
+* Welcome
+* Approval of minutes from previous meeting: [2025-10-02](https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/pull/187)
+* Updates from related communities (PQCA, OQS)
+ * Volunteer to join TAC meetings? Wednesday, 15:00 UTC, every two weeks
+* Review status of sub projects
+  * [mlkem-native](https://github.com/pq-code-package/mlkem-native)
+  * [mldsa-native](https://github.com/pq-code-package/mldsa-native)
+  * [mlkem-libjade](https://github.com/pq-code-package/mlkem-libjade)
+  * [rust-libcrux](https://github.com/pq-code-package/rust-libcrux)
+  * [slhdsa-c](https://github.com/pq-code-package/slhdsa-c)
+* Discussion items
+  * [PQCP Growth Plan](https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/188)
+    - [X] mlkem-native
+    - [X] mldsa-native
+    - [X] mlkem-libjade
+    - [ ] rust-libcrux
+    - [ ] slhdsa-c
+  * [Project Documentation Standards](https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/151)
+    - [X] Manuel Barbosa
+    - [ ] Hanno Becker
+    - [X] Matthias Kannwischer
+    - [X] Franziskus Kiefer
+    - [ ] Jake Massimo
+    - [X] Tiago Oliveira
+    - [ ] Pravek Sharma
+    - [ ] Markku-Juhani Saarinen
+  * Review of remaining open issues:
+    - [Determine any cross-implementation API requirements](https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/4)
+    - [Adopt a definition of assurance levels](https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/3)
+* Any other business
+* Next meeting: 2025-12-04 13:00 UTC
+
+## Attendees
+TSC members:
+* [X] Manuel Barbosa
+* [X] Hanno Becker
+* [X] Matthias J. Kannwischer
+* [ ] Franziskus Kiefer
+* [ ] Jake Massimo
+* [ ] Tiago Oliveira
+* [ ] Pravek Sharma
+* [ ] Markku-Juhani Saarinen
+
+Other attendees:
+* None
+
+## Action Items
+- Hanno: Take turns with Matthias attending TAC meetings (every 4 weeks each)
+- Matthias: Contact Pravek about stepping down from TSC
+- Matthias: Contact Franziskus for rust-libcrux growth plan contribution
+- Matthias: Contact Markku for slhdsa-c growth plan contribution
+- Matthias: Create issues in all project repositories for documentation standards
+
+## Minutes
+
+* **TAC Meeting Attendance**:
+  - TAC meetings occur every two weeks at an inconvenient time for Matthias (11pm after daylight saving changes)
+  - Hanno agreed to take turns attending TAC meetings with Matthias (every 4 weeks each)
+
+* **PQCP Growth Plan**:
+  - https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/188
+  - Matthias has written growth plans for mlkem-native and mldsa-native
+  - Manuel has submitted growth plan for libjade
+  - Still waiting for contributions from:
+    - Libcrux (Franziskus)
+    - SLHDSA (Markku)
+  - **Action**: Matthias to follow up with Franziskus and Markku for growth plan contributions
+  - Growth plan to be revisited in one year
+
+* **Project Documentation Standards**:
+  - Issue [#151](https://github.com/pq-code-package/tsc/issues/151) now has 5 approvals (sufficient for approval)
+  - Hanno reviewed and approved the documentation standards during the meeting
+  - **Decision**: Documentation standards approved
+  - **Next steps**: Matthias will create issues in all project repositories to implement the standards
+
+* **TSC Membership**:
+  - Pravek Sharma is no longer working on LibOQS and should step down from TSC
+  - Douglas hired a new person to take over Pravek's role, who was expected to join this meeting but did not attend
+  - **Action**: Matthias to contact Pravek about formally stepping down
+
+* **Sub-project updates**:
+  - **mlkem-native** (Hanno Becker):
+    - Successfully integrated into OpenTitan (zeroRISC's distribution - https://github.com/zerorisc/expo/pull/97). Integration leverages Keccak hardware acceleration. Added option to disable batching to enable use of hardware Keccak accelerator (accelerator can only handle one state at a time).
+    - mlkem-native functional when using 16-bit compilers (AVR 8-bit microcontroller support tested in CI)
+  - **mldsa-native** (Matthias Kannwischer):
+    - Alpha release planned soon
+  - **mlkem-libjade**: No updates
+  - **rust-libcrux**: No updates
+  - **slhdsa-c**:
+    - No current development activity.
+    - One student from Douglas's group attempted CBMC proofs but did not complete them
+    - slhdsa-c is merged into LibOQS release candidate and will ship in a few weeks
+
+* **Next meeting: 2025-12-04 13:00 UTC**