The IESG has received a request from the Transport Area Working Group to consider 'A Conservative SACK-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP' <draft-allman-tcp-sack-13.txt> as a Proposed Standard. The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send any comments to the iesg@ietf.org or ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2003-2-13. Files can be obtained via http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-allman-tcp-sack-13.txt