The IESG has received a request from the Email Address Internationalization WG (eai) to consider the following document: - 'IMAP Support for UTF-8' <draft-ietf-eai-5738bis-09.txt> as Proposed Standard Please note: This document is one a set of four interdependent documents: draft-ietf-eai-5738bis draft-ietf-eai-popimap-downgrade draft-ietf-eai-rfc5721bis draft-ietf-eai-simpledowngrade These documents should be reviewed, evaluated, and understood together. 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 2012-09-20. 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 specification extends the Internet Message Access Protocol version 4rev1 (IMAP4rev1) to support UTF-8 encoded international characters in user names, mail addresses and message headers. This specification replaces RFC 5738. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eai-5738bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eai-5738bis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.