The IESG has received a request from the Forwarding and Control Element Separation WG (forces) to consider the following document: - 'ForCES Protocol Extensions' <draft-ietf-forces-protoextension-04.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 2014-08-13. 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 Experience in implementing and deploying ForCES architecture has demonstrated need for a few small extensions both to ease programmability and to improve wire efficiency of some transactions. This documents updates both RFC 5810 and RFC 7121 semantics to achieve that end goal. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-forces-protoextension/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-forces-protoextension/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.