The IESG has received a request from the smime WG (smime) to consider the following document: - 'Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) ' RFC 3852 as a Draft Standard No technical issues were raised during the first Last Call. However, the Last Call failed to highlight two normative references to standards track documents of lower maturity: RFCs 3280 and 3281. This abbreviated Last Call is focused solely on whether downrefs to these Proposed Standards are appropriate in the context of RFC 3852. 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 2009-05-06. 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. The file can be obtained via http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3852.txt Implementation Report can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/IESG/implementation.html IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=3852&rfc_flag=1 _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce