The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Alternative Challenge Password Attributes for Enrollment over Secure Transport' <draft-wallace-est-alt-challenge-04.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 2016-03-07. 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 defines a set of new Certificate Signing Request attributes for use with the Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) protocol. These attributes provide disambiguation of the existing overloaded uses for the PKCS #9 challengePassword attribute. Uses include the original certificate revocation password, common authentication password uses, and EST-defined linking of transport security identity. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wallace-est-alt-challenge/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wallace-est-alt-challenge/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.