The IESG has received a request from the Email Address Internationalization WG (eai) to consider the following document: - 'Simplified POP/IMAP Downgrading for Internationalized Email' <draft-ietf-eai-simpledowngrade-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 document specifies a method for IMAP and POP servers to serve internationalized messages to conventional clients. The specification is simple, easy to implement and provides only rudimentary results. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eai-simpledowngrade/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-eai-simpledowngrade/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.