The IESG has received a request from the Transport Layer Security WG (tls) to consider the following document: - 'A TLS ClientHello padding extension' <draft-ietf-tls-padding-01.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 2015-08-24. 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 TLS extension that can be used to pad ClientHello messages to a desired size. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-padding/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-padding/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.