The IESG has received a request from the Selection of Language for Internet Media WG (slim) to consider the following document: - 'Negotiating Human Language in Real-Time Communications' <draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language-19.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 2017-12-22. 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 Users have various human (natural) language needs, abilities, and preferences regarding spoken, written, and signed languages. This document adds new SDP media-level attributes so that when establishing interactive communication sessions ("calls"), it is possible to negotiate (communicate and match) the caller's language and media needs with the capabilities of the called party. This is especially important with emergency calls, where a call can be handled by a call taker capable of communicating with the user, or a translator or relay operator can be bridged into the call during setup, but this applies to non-emergency calls as well (as an example, when calling a company call center). This document describes the need and a solution using new SDP media attributes. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: draft-saintandre-sip-xmpp-chat: Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): One-to-One Text Chat (None - )