The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol WG (httpbis) to consider the following document: - 'Encrypted Content-Encoding for HTTP' <draft-ietf-httpbis-encryption-encoding-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 2017-04-06. 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 memo introduces a content coding for HTTP that allows message payloads to be encrypted. Note to Readers Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTP working group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/ . Working Group information can be found at http://httpwg.github.io/ ; source code and issues list for this draft can be found at https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/labels/encryption . The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-encryption-encoding/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-encryption-encoding/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2777/ The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: rfc5869: HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key Derivation Function (HKDF) (Informational - IETF stream) Note that some of these references may already be listed in the acceptable Downref Registry.