The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status' (draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc5451bis-10.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Applications Area Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Barry Leiba and Pete Resnick. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc5451bis/ Technical Summary draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc5451bis specifies a header field (Authentication-Results) for use with electronic mail messages to indicate the results of message authentication efforts. Working Group Summary The document was discussed by five participants within the Applications Area Working Group and it has the consensus of the working group. The issues raised during the WGLC were resolved quickly. Document Quality RFC 5451 was published as a Proposed Standard in April 2009. draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc5451bis incorporates RFC 5451 and its errata and RFC 6577 (Authentication-Results Registration Update). The intended status is Internet Standard as there are seven implementations of the specification and it has gained significant deployment. Personnel The document shepherd is S. Moonesamy. The Responsible Area Director is Barry Leiba. Murray Kucherawy is the suggested designated expert for the updated registries.