The IESG has received a request from the Email Address Internationalization WG (eai) to consider the following document: - 'POP3 Support for UTF-8' <draft-ietf-eai-rfc5721bis-07.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 Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) to support UTF-8 encoded international string in user names, passwords, mail addresses, message headers, and protocol-level textual strings. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eai-rfc5721bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eai-rfc5721bis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.