The IESG has received a request from the Home Networking WG (homenet) to consider the following document: - 'Homenet profile of the Babel routing protocol' <draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile-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 2018-02-26. 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 the subset of the Babel routing protocol and its extensions that a Homenet router must implement, as well as the interactions between HNCP and Babel. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-homenet-babel-profile/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.