The IESG has received a request from the Preparation and Comparison of Internationalized Strings WG (precis) to consider the following document: - 'Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Nicknames' <draft-ietf-precis-nickname-17.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 2015-07-10. 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 describes methods for handling Unicode strings representing nicknames. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-precis-nickname/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-precis-nickname/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.