The IESG has received a request from the Diameter Maintenance and Extensions WG (dime) to consider the following document: - 'Diameter Agent Overload and the Peer Overload Report' <draft-ietf-dime-agent-overload-08.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 2017-01-23. 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 documents an extension to RFC 7683 (Diameter Overload Indication Conveyance (DOIC)) base solution. The extension defines the Peer overload report type. The initial use case for the Peer report is the handling of occurrences of overload of a Diameter agent. Requirements The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dime-agent-overload/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dime-agent-overload/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: draft-roach-dime-overload-ctrl: A Mechanism for Diameter Overload Control (None - ) Note that some of these references may already be listed in the acceptable Downref Registry.