The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis WG (httpbis) to consider the following document: - 'Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication' <draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-24.txt> as Proposed Standard 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 2013-11-04. 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 The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. This document defines the HTTP Authentication framework. Note that this document is part of a set, which should be reviewed together: * draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging * draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics * draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional * draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range * draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache * draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth * draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations * draft-ietf-httpbis-authscheme-registrations The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth/ Once IESG evaluation begins, IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1398/