The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Use of the Prefer Header Field in Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)' <draft-murchison-webdav-prefer-11.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 2017-01-16. 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 specification defines how the HTTP Prefer header field can be used by a WebDAV client to request that certain behaviors be employed by a server while constructing a response to a request. Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor before publication) Please send comments to the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) mailing list at <mailto:w3c-dist-auth@w3.org> [1], which may be joined by sending a message with subject "subscribe" to <mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org> [2]. This mailing list is archived at <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/> [3]. Open Issues o Should we add any text regarding caching responses in Section 3? The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-murchison-webdav-prefer/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-murchison-webdav-prefer/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.