The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) in the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)' <draft-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations-01.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 2016-12-26. 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 provides recommendations for improving the security of the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) when using Transport Layer Security (TLS). It modernizes the NNTP usage of TLS to be consistent with TLS best current practices. If approved, this document updates RFC 4642. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
