The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'IUTF8 Terminal Mode in Secure Shell (SSH)' <draft-sgtatham-secsh-iutf8-05.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 2017-02-27. 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 updates RFC 4254 by specifying a new opcode in the Secure Shell terminal modes encoding. The new opcode describes the widely used IUTF8 terminal mode bit, which indicates that terminal I/ O uses the UTF-8 character encoding. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sgtatham-secsh-iutf8/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sgtatham-secsh-iutf8/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.