The IESG has received a request from the Operations and Management Area Working Group WG (opsawg) to consider the following document: - 'HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols in USM for SNMP' <draft-ietf-opsawg-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp-05.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 2015-04-20. 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 memo specifies new HMAC-SHA-2 authentication protocols for the User-based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3 defined in RFC 3414. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.