The IESG has received a request from the DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities WG (dane) to consider the following document: - 'SMTP security via opportunistic DANE TLS' <draft-ietf-dane-smtp-with-dane-16.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 2015-05-07. 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 describes a downgrade-resistant protocol for SMTP transport security between Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) based on the DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) TLSA DNS record. Adoption of this protocol enables an incremental transition of the Internet email backbone to one using encrypted and authenticated Transport Layer Security (TLS). The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dane-smtp-with-dane/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dane-smtp-with-dane/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
