The IESG has received a request from the Operations and Management Area Working Group WG (opsawg) to consider the following document: - 'Manufacturer Usage Description Specification' <draft-ietf-opsawg-mud-13.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 2017-11-07. 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 specifies a component-based architecture for manufacturer usage descriptions (MUD). The goal of MUD is to provide a means for Things to signal to the network what sort of access and network functionality they require to properly function. The initial focus is on access control. Later work can delve into other aspects. This memo specifies two YANG modules, IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP options, an LLDP TLV, a URL suffix specification, an X.509 certificate extension and a means to sign and verify the descriptions. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-mud/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-mud/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2740/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2757/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2758/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2759/ The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: draft-ietf-netmod-acl-model: Network Access Control List (ACL) YANG Data Model (None - IETF stream)