The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) in the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)' (draft-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations-05.txt) as Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Alexey Melnikov. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-elie-nntp-tls-recommendations/ Technical Summary 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. Working Group Summary This is not a WG document, but it was reviewed on the former NNTPEXT WG mailing list. Document Quality Several existing implementations already implement the cipher recommendations from this document due to use of generic TLS libraries. Personnel Document Shepherd: Michael Baeuerle <mailto:michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de> (The "ae" in "Baeuerle" is an ASCII transcription for the umlaut U+00E4) Responsible Area Director : Alexey Melnikov
