The IESG has received a request from the Transport Services WG (taps) to consider the following document: - 'A Minimal Set of Transport Services for End Systems' <draft-ietf-taps-minset-05.txt> as Informational 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 2018-09-04. 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 draft recommends a minimal set of Transport Services offered by end systems, and gives guidance on choosing among the available mechanisms and protocols. It is based on the set of transport features in RFC 8303. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-taps-minset/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-taps-minset/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.