The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: - 'Indicating Email Handling States in Trace Fields' <draft-ietf-appsawg-received-state-04.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 2012-07-12. 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 registers a trace field clause for use in indicating transitions between handling queues or processing states, including enacting inter- and intra-host message transitions. This might include message quarantining, mailing list moderation, timed delivery, queueing for further analysis, content conversion, or other similar causes, as well as optionally identifying normal handling queues. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-received-state/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-received-state/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.