The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Cancel-Locks in Netnews articles' <draft-baeuerle-netnews-cancel-lock-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 2017-06-28. 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 defines an extension to the Netnews Article Format that may be used to authenticate the cancelling and superseding of existing articles. If approved, this document updates RFC5537. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-baeuerle-netnews-cancel-lock/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-baeuerle-netnews-cancel-lock/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.