The IESG has received a request from the Address Resolution for Massive numbers of hosts in the Data center WG (armd) to consider the following document: - 'Problem Statement for ARMD' <draft-ietf-armd-problem-statement-03.txt> as Informational RFC 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 2012-08-23. 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 examines address resolution issues related to the massive scaling of data centers. Our initial scope is relatively narrow. Specifically, it focuses on address resolution (ARP and ND) within the data center. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-armd-problem-statement/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-armd-problem-statement/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.