The IESG has received a request from the Using TLS in Applications WG (uta) to consider the following document: - 'Cleartext Considered Obsolete: Use of TLS for Email Submission and Access' <draft-ietf-uta-email-deep-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 2017-10-13. 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 specification outlines current recommendations for use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide confidentiality of email traffic between a mail user agent (MUA) and a mail submission or mail access server. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uta-email-deep/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uta-email-deep/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
