The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) in the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)' (draft-ietf-uta-xmpp-07.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Using TLS in Applications Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Stephen Farrell and Barry Leiba. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uta-xmpp/ Technical Summary This document provides recommendations for the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) in the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This document updates RFC 6120. The document is intended for standards track. Working Group Summary The document extends the UTA TLS BCP to cover XMPP specifics and as such is comparatively less controversial but has still seen enough review to determine consensus. The document has been last-called in both the XMPP and UTA WGs. The review has been mostly done by a small circle of interested individuals. Document Quality Three are I believe implementations that match this spec. Personnel Shepherd: Leif Johansson Irresponsible AD: Stephen Farrell