The IESG has received a request from the Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach WG (anima) to consider the following document: - 'A Generic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP)' <draft-ietf-anima-grasp-09.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 2017-03-02. 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 establishes requirements for a signaling protocol that enables autonomic devices and autonomic service agents to dynamically discover peers, to synchronize state with them, and to negotiate parameter settings mutually with them. The document then defines a general protocol for discovery, synchronization and negotiation, while the technical objectives for specific scenarios are to be described in separate documents. An Appendix briefly discusses existing protocols with comparable features. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-grasp/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-anima-grasp/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-greevenbosch-appsawg-cbor-cddl: CBOR data definition language (CDDL): a notational convention to express CBOR data structures (None - IETF stream) Note that some of these references may already be listed in the acceptable Downref Registry.