The IESG has received a request from the DNS PRIVate Exchange WG (dprive) to consider the following document: - 'The EDNS(0) Padding Option' <draft-ietf-dprive-edns0-padding-02.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-02-10. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document specifies the EDNS(0) 'Padding' option, which allows DNS clients and servers to pad request and response messages by a variable number of octets. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dprive-edns0-padding/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dprive-edns0-padding/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.