The IESG has received a request from the ART Area General Applications Working Group WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: - 'Problem Details for HTTP APIs' <draft-ietf-appsawg-http-problem-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 2015-12-04. 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 a "problem detail" as a way to carry machine- readable details of errors in a HTTP response, to avoid the need to invent new error response formats for HTTP APIs. Note to Readers This draft should be discussed on the apps-discuss mailing list [1]. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-http-problem/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-http-problem/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.