The IESG has received a request from the Transport Layer Security WG (tls) to consider the following document: - 'The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3' <draft-ietf-tls-tls13-24.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 2018-03-02. 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 specifies version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. TLS allows client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-tls13/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-tls13/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2900/ The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: rfc8017: PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.2 (Informational - IETF stream) rfc6962: Certificate Transparency (Experimental - IETF stream) rfc6979: Deterministic Usage of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) (informational - Independent Stream) rfc7539: ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols (Informational - IRTF stream) rfc7748: Elliptic Curves for Security (Informational - IRTF stream) rfc8017: PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.2 (Informational - IETF stream) rfc8032: Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) (Informational - IRTF stream)