The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Authentication Context Certificate Extension' <draft-santesson-auth-context-extension-09.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 2015-10-27. 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 defines an extension to certificates according to [RFC5280]. The extension defined in this document holds data about how the certificate subject was authenticated by the Certification Authority that issued the certificate in which this extension appears This document also defines one data structure for inclusion in this Extension. The data structure is designed to hold information when the subject is authenticated using a SAML assertion [SAML]. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-santesson-auth-context-extension/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-santesson-auth-context-extension/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. Note: The editorial comments in the shepherd report have been addressed. These will be removed/updated in a future version of the shepherd report, but I didn't want to hold up processing of this draft any further.