The IESG has received a request from the Operations and Management Area Working Group WG (opsawg) to consider the following document: - 'HMAC-SHA-2 Authentication Protocols in USM for SNMPv3' <draft-ietf-opsawg-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp-new-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 2016-01-18. 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 specifies new HMAC-SHA-2 authentication protocols for the User-based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3 defined in RFC 3414. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp-new/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-opsawg-hmac-sha-2-usm-snmp-new/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
