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The motion to remove Luke Dashjr is a purge dressed up as process

A handful of BIP editors moved to strip Luke Dashjr of a role he has held for over a decade, using a removal procedure that, by their own admission, does not exist. The charges amount to editorial housekeeping and personality. The real risk is turning Bitcoin's neutral registry into a factional weapon.

The IESG should reject solo ML-KEM for TLS and keep the hybrid safety net

An IETF-wide last call asks the steering group to publish pure ML-KEM key agreement for TLS 1.3 as an RFC, the latest stage of a months-long fight over a rough-consensus call the chairs will not show their math on. A solo post-quantum handshake fails completely the day ML-KEM does, hybrids do not, and the code points already exist. The IESG should reject it. Comments close 13 August.

Bernstein files a formal complaint against SSH chairs who tried to silence him

The SSHM chairs met an unanswered objection to solo post-quantum signatures with moderation threats instead of discussion. D. J. Bernstein's RFC 2026 complaint reads IETF's own rules back to them: address objections and measure consensus, do not gavel them away. The call for adoption closes 17 August.

For SSH signatures, keep the classical layer

As the SSHM working group runs a call for adoption ending 17 August, the record makes a strong case against blessing solo ML-DSA for host and user authentication when a cheap ECC hedge removes an entire class of failure.