The IESG has received a request from the STORage Maintenance WG (storm) to consider the following document: - 'RDMA Protocol Extensions' <draft-ietf-storm-rdmap-ext-08.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 2014-02-19. 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 extensions to the IETF Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol (RDMAP [RFC5040]). RDMAP provides read and write services directly to applications and enables data to be transferred directly into Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) Buffers without intermediate data copies. The extensions specified in this document provide the following capabilities and/or improvements: Atomic Operations and Immediate Data. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-storm-rdmap-ext/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-storm-rdmap-ext/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.