Please write respectfully on this list (Re: PQC public key format specification)

[Heiko Schäfer]

On 2/14/24 10:55, Bernhard Reiter via LibrePGP-discuss wrote:
>> I'm unsure how to "avoid a discussion style as introduced around 2018 in
>> the OpenPGP working group mailing list".
> My take on it:
> Do not presume what is or was a mistake or a good spririt and what
> wasn't. The first quote above can be understood this way.

I apologize in advance for being extremely confused by this guidance, 
and would like to ask for clarification.

Just a bit up in this same thread, Werner explained that the design of 
draft-wussler is "alien to the OpenPGP way", which I understand as: 
considering the design a "mistake", because the design is "not in the 
spirit" of OpenPGP.

Andrew's reply picked up the structure of this argument, and made a 
counterpoint to it. That seemed reasonable to me, at the time. Could you 
please clarify why statements such as:

> the way the Wussler draft used the algorithm IDs is alien to the
> OpenPGP way

or, for that matter:

> Nobody with a sane mind uses the metadata to directly save to a file
> with that name without taking necessary precautions

apparently conform to the social norms of this list, while Andrew's message

> [..] Was this in the spirit
> of the OpenPGP way of doing things? It's certainly arguable that it
> was not and that we shouldn't repeat that mistake.

does not?

Thanks,
Heiko