The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Representing DNS Messages in JSON' <draft-hoffman-dns-in-json-13.txt> as Experimental RFC 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 2018-04-20. 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 Some applications use DNS messages, or parts of DNS messages, as data. For example, a system that captures DNS queries and responses might want to be able to easily search those without having to decode the messages each time. Another example is a system that puts together DNS queries and responses from message parts. This document describes a general format for DNS message data in JSON. Specific profiles of this document can be described in other documents for specific applications and usage scenarios. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hoffman-dns-in-json/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hoffman-dns-in-json/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.