The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: - 'Email Greylisting: An Applicability Statement for SMTP' <draft-ietf-appsawg-greylisting-06.txt> as a 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 2012-04-13. 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 memo describes the art of email greylisting, the practice of providing temporarily degraded service to unknown email clients as an anti-abuse mechanism. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-greylisting/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-greylisting/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
