The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Cleartext Considered Obsolete: Use of TLS for Email Submission and Access' (draft-ietf-uta-email-deep-12.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Using TLS in Applications Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Adam Roach, Alexey Melnikov and Ben Campbell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uta-email-deep/ Technical Summary 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. Working Group Summary Discussion in the WG went through several iterations and the document went through major restructure with respect to the initial submission. Document Quality The document accurately reflects consensus and closely matches much of current practice for how mail services are operated. The WGLC went through with no opposition and clear indication of consensus from the community. There have been no expert reviews of the document and an ABNF expert review along with the secdir review would be useful. Personnel Shepherd: Leif Johansson (WG chair) AD: Alexey Melnikov
