The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Characterization of Proposed Standards' <draft-kolkman-proposed-standards-clarified-03.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 2013-10-16. 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 RFC 2026 describes the review performed by the IESG on IETF Proposed Standard RFCs and states the maturity level of those documents. This document clarifies those descriptions and updates RFC 2026 by providing a new characterization Proposed Standards. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kolkman-proposed-standards-clarified/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kolkman-proposed-standards-clarified/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.