The Technical Steering Committee (TSC) for the Open Quantum Safe (OQS) project is responsible for technical oversight of the Open Quantum Safe project.

The role and responsibilities of the TSC are described in the Technical Charter for the OQS Project, and include:

• coordinating the technical direction of the Project;
• approving project or system proposals (including, but not limited to, incubation, deprecation, and changes to a sub-project’s scope);
• organizing sub-projects and removing sub-projects;
• creating sub-committees or working groups to focus on cross-project technical issues and requirements;
• appointing representatives to work with other open source or open standards communities;
• establishing community norms, workflows, issuing releases, and security issue reporting policies;
• approving and implementing policies and processes for contributing;
• discussions, seeking consensus, and where necessary, voting on technical matters relating to the code base that affect multiple projects; and
• coordinating any marketing, events, or communications regarding the Project.

• Norman Ashley (Cisco) – OQS representative to PQCA TAC
• Michael Baentsch (independent contributor)
• Vlad Gheorghiu (softwareQ Inc.)
• Basil Hess (IBM Research) – OQS liasion to PQ Code Package
• Rodrigo Martín (Indra) – TSC chair
• Christian Paquin (Microsoft Research)
• Douglas Stebila (University of Waterloo) – TSC vice-chair

• Brian Jarvis (AWS)
• Spencer Wilson (University of Waterloo)
• Thomas Bailleux (independent contributor)

The TSC holds regular meetings every 5 weeks, alternating between 10am and 12:30pm US Eastern time. See the PQCA calendar.

Agenda and minutes

Upcoming meetings:

• Tuesday November 24, 2026, at 10:00am US Eastern time

Public mailing list for the OQS TSC: [email protected]

Subscribe and access list archives at https://lists.pqca.org/g/oqs-tsc

Join the PQCA Discord server and reach us on the #oqs-general channel.

OQS responds to security reports following a coordinated vulnerability disclosure process, informed by current Open Source Software Foundation guidelines.