The IESG has received a request from the Preparation and Comparison of Internationalized Strings WG (precis) to consider the following document: - 'Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Nicknames' <draft-ietf-precis-7700bis-07.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 2017-06-13. 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 describes methods for handling Unicode strings representing memorable, human-friendly names (called "nicknames", "display names", or "petnames") for people, devices, accounts, websites, and other entities. This document obsoletes RFC 7700. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-precis-7700bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-precis-7700bis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.