The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 certificates' (draft-ietf-lamps-eai-addresses-18.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX and SMIME Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Benjamin Kaduk and Eric Rescorla. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-eai-addresses/ (1) What type of RFC is being requested (BCP, Proposed Standard, Internet Standard, Informational, Experimental, or Historic)? Why is this the proper type of RFC? Is this type of RFC indicated in the title page header? Proposed Standard (2) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document Announcement Write-Up. Please provide such a Document Announcement Write-Up. Recent examples can be found in the "Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval announcement contains the following sections: Technical Summary This document defines a new name form for inclusion in the otherName field of an X.509 Subject Alternative Name and Issuer Alternate Name extension that allows a certificate subject to be associated with an Internationalized Email Address. Working Group Summary The LAMPS WG reviewed the document and reached consensus on the content. Document Quality Vendors associated with major implementations of S/MIME have indicated that they intend to support EAI, and this capability is needed for them to do so. Personnel Document Shepherd: Russ Housley Responsible Area Director: Eric Rescorla
