The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Pervasive Monitoring is an Attack' <draft-farrell-perpass-attack-02.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 2013-12-31. 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 IETF has consensus that pervasive monitoring is a technical attack that should be mitigated in the design of IETF protocols, where possible. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrell-perpass-attack/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrell-perpass-attack/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.