The IESG has received a request from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol WG (httpbis) to consider the following document: - 'An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles' <draft-ietf-httpbis-legally-restricted-status-04.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 specifies a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) status code for use when resource access is denied as a consequence of legal demands. Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor before publication) Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTPBIS working group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at [1]. Working Group information can be found at [2] and [3]; source code and issues list for this draft can be found at [4]. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-legally-restricted-status/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-legally-restricted-status/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.