The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Opportunistic Wireless Encryption' <draft-harkins-owe-05.txt> as Informational RFC 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 2017-01-13. 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 memo specifies an extension to IEEE Std 802.11 to provide for opportunistic (unauthenticated) encryption to the wireless media. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-harkins-owe/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-harkins-owe/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.