The IESG has received a request from the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working Group to consider Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) <draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2511bis-05.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 2003-2-24. Files can be obtained via http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2511bis-05.txt