The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points' <draft-cotton-rfc4020bis-01.txt> as Best Current Practice 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 2013-09-24. 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 memo describes the process for early allocation of code points by IANA from registries for which "Specification Required", "RFC Required", "IETF Review", or "Standards Action" policies apply. This process can be used to alleviate the problem where code point allocation is needed to facilitate desired or required implementation and deployment experience prior to publication of an RFC that would normally trigger code point allocation. This document obsoletes RFC 4020. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cotton-rfc4020bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cotton-rfc4020bis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.