@huitema @pedromj @paulehoffman @rsalz All WG-issued RFCs state that they represent "the consensus of the IETF community". The important effect of issuing an RFC, as opposed to a spec just sitting around somewhere, is IETF endorsement. This matters because endorsement often triggers usage. What happened for the non-hybrid-ML-KEM-in-TLS spec is a bunch of people (the majority of people who spoke up!) objecting to an RFC, most importantly because usage would violate common-sense security rules.