The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'MSA and MTA S/MIME signing & encryption' <draft-melnikov-smime-msa-to-mda-02.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 2014-03-05. 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 document specifies how S/MIME signing and encryption can be applied between a Message Submission Agent (MSA) and a Message Delivery Agent (MDA) or between 2 Message Transfer Agents (MTA). The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-melnikov-smime-msa-to-mda/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-melnikov-smime-msa-to-mda/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.