The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: - 'Update to MIME regarding Charset Parameter Handling in Textual Media Types' <draft-ietf-appsawg-mime-default-charset-03.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 2012-05-07. 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 document changes RFC 2046 rules regarding default charset parameter values for text/* media types to better align with common usage by existing clients and servers. Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor) Discussion of this draft should take place on the Apps Area Working Group mailing list (apps-discuss@ietf.org), which is archived at <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss>. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-mime-default-charset/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-mime-default-charset/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
