Hi Christian,

Thank you for submitting PEP 644 (Require OpenSSL 1.1.1). After evaluating

the situation and discussing the PEP, the Steering Council is happy with the PEP,

and hereby accepts it. The SC is of the opinion that this change will make it considerable

easier to maintain the extension modules that depend on OpenSSL while allowing us

to leverage the new APIs and improvements in the future. As indicated in the PEP,

OpenSSL 1.1.1 is the default variant and version of OpenSSL on almost all supported

platforms and distributions almost all known Major CI providers provide images with

OpenSSL 1.1.1, so we believe this has the right balance to improve the situation without

causing major impact or breakage.

Nevertheless, the Steering Council would like to see this change reflected properly in the

documentation, What's New (linking against the new instructions here: 

https://docs.python.org/3.10/using/unix.html#custom-openssl) and release manager notices

so this is properly communicated to our users. 

The Steering Council also thanks Christian for his patience explaining different aspects

of the PEP, including in the PEP some extra requested information and for considering

the concerts raised.

Congratulations, Christian!

With thanks from the whole Python Steering Council,
Pablo Galindo Salgado