The IESG has received a request from the Managed Incident Lightweight Exchange WG (mile) to consider the following document: - 'Using XMPP for Security Information Exchange' <draft-ietf-mile-xmpp-grid-09.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 2019-01-14. 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. Note that the document depends normatively on the following documents from XSF (see <https://xmpp.org/extensions/> for more details): [XEP-0004] Eatmon, R., Hildebrand, J., Miller, J., Muldowney, T., and P. Saint-Andre, "Data Forms", XSF XEP 0004, August 2007. [XEP-0030] Hildebrand, J., Millard, P., Eatmon, R., and P. Saint- Andre, "Service Discovery", XSF XEP 0030, July 2010. [XEP-0060] Millard, P., Saint-Andre, P., and R. Meijer, "Publish- Subscribe", XSF XEP 0060, December 2017. Abstract This document describes how to use the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) to collect and distribute security-relevant information between network-connected devices. To illustrate the principles involved, this document describes such a usage for the Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF). The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mile-xmpp-grid/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mile-xmpp-grid/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.