The IESG has received a request from the Network Configuration WG (netconf) to consider the following document: - 'YANG Patch Media Type' <draft-ietf-netconf-yang-patch-12.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 2016-10-17. 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 describes a method for applying patches to configuration datastores using data defined with the YANG data modeling language. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netconf-yang-patch/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-netconf-yang-patch/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.