The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Updates to and Operational Guidance for the DANE Protocol' (draft-ietf-dane-ops-16.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Stephen Farrell and Kathleen Moriarty. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dane-ops/ Technical Summary This document clarifies and updates the DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) TLSA specification (RFC6698) based on subsequent implementation experience. It also contains guidance for implementers, operators and protocol developers who want to make use of DANE records. Working Group Summary This document received significant discussion, and reflects new understanding of how DANE is being used and deployed. It provides advice to operators and implementers. Document Quality This document describes how to actually use and interpret RFC 6698 now that we have some experience with it. It is very clearly written, easily understood, and makes a good introductory document as well. Personnel Warren Kumari is the Document Shepherd Stephen Farrell is Responsible AD