Internet Engineering Steering Group (iesg)
IESG review decisions in the past 6 months
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October 9, 2026
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-netconf - Network Configuration
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-bmwg-sr-bench-meth (Informational) - Benchmarking Methodology for Segment Routing (SR) Forwarding
October 8, 2026
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-procon - Process Document Consolidation
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-mops - Media OPerationS
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-dnssd - DNS-SD Extensions
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-agentproto - Agent Communication Protocols
IESG has approved the conflict review response conflict-review-housley-asn1-layman-guide - IETF conflict review for draft-housley-asn1-layman-guide
October 6, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-inter-as-topology-ext (Proposed Standard) - BGP-LS Extensions for Inter-AS Topology Retrieval
September 29, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-httpbis-no-vary-search (Proposed Standard) - The No-Vary-Search HTTP Caching Extension
September 28, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-suit-update-management (Proposed Standard) - Update Management Extensions for Software Updates for Internet of Things (SUIT) Manifests
September 24, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-jose-hpke-encrypt (Proposed Standard) - Use of Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE) with JSON Web Encryption (JWE)
IESG has approved the conflict review response conflict-review-irtf-nmrg-ai-challenges - IETF conflict review for draft-irtf-nmrg-ai-challenges
IESG has approved the conflict review response conflict-review-irtf-t2trg-taxonomy-manufacturer-anchors - IETF conflict review for draft-irtf-t2trg-taxonomy-manufacturer-anchors
September 21, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-bier-ping (Proposed Standard) - Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) Ping and Trace
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-radext - RADIUS EXTensions
September 18, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-lamps-cms-composite-kem (Proposed Standard) - Composite ML-KEM for use in Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
September 17, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-nfsv4-uncacheable-files (Proposed Standard) - Adding an Uncacheable File Data Attribute to NFSv4.2
September 14, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-quic-reliable-stream-reset (Proposed Standard) - QUIC Stream Resets with Partial Delivery
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-avtcore-rtp-jpegxs-3ed (Proposed Standard) - RTP Payload Format for ISO/IEC 21122 (JPEG XS)
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-mpls-stamp-pw (Proposed Standard) - Encapsulation of Simple Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol for LSPs and Pseudowires in MPLS Networks
September 10, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-tls-mldsa (Informational) - Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-avtcore-rtcp-green-metadata (Proposed Standard) - RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Messages for Temporal-Spatial Resolution
September 4, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-v6ops-rfc6146-bis (Internet Standard) - Stateful NAT64: Network Address and Protocol Translation from IPv6 Clients to IPv4 Servers
September 3, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-uta-tls13-iot-profile (Proposed Standard) - TLS/DTLS 1.3 Profiles for the Internet of Things
IESG has approved the conflict review response conflict-review-grimminck-safe-ioc-sharing - IETF conflict review for draft-grimminck-safe-ioc-sharing
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-tls-mlkem (Informational) - ML-KEM Post-Quantum Key Agreement for TLS 1.3
August 31, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-lsr-dynamic-flooding-algorithm (Experimental) - An Algorithm for Computing Dynamic Flooding Topologies
August 25, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp (Proposed Standard) - BGP SR Policy Extensions for Network Resource Partition
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-seglist-id (Proposed Standard) - BGP SR Policy Extensions for Segment List Identifier
August 24, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-pqc-auth (Proposed Standard) - Signature Authentication in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) using PQC
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-oauth-rfc8725bis (Best Current Practice) - JSON Web Token Best Current Practices
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-masque-connect-udp-listen (Proposed Standard) - Proxying Bound UDP in HTTP
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-ccwg-ratelimited-increase (Proposed Standard) - Increase of the Congestion Window when the Sender Is Rate-Limited
August 21, 2026
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-lamps - Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX and SMIME
August 18, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-versioning (Proposed Standard) - Updated YANG Module Revision Handling
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-netmod-yang-module-filename (Proposed Standard) - YANG Module File Name Convention
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-netmod-yang-semver (Proposed Standard) - YANG Semantic Versioning
August 17, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-pim-pfm-forwarding-enhancements (Experimental) - PIM Flooding Mechanism and Source Discovery Enhancements
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-regext-ext-registry-epp (Best Current Practice) - Extension Registry for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-mpls-mna-ps-hdr (Proposed Standard) - MPLS Network Action (MNA) Post-Stack Header Specification
August 13, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-opsawg-discardmodel (Proposed Standard) - Information and Data Models for Packet Discard Reporting
August 6, 2026
IESG has approved the conflict review response conflict-review-irtf-cfrg-rsa-guidance - IETF conflict review for draft-irtf-cfrg-rsa-guidance
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ls-sr-epe-over-l2bundle (Proposed Standard) - Segment Routing BGP Egress Peer Engineering over Layer 2 Bundle Members
July 30, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-acme-device-attest (Proposed Standard) - Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Device Attestation Extension
July 24, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-integrity-yang (Proposed Standard) - A YANG Data Model for In Situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) Integrity-Protected Options
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-data-integrity (Proposed Standard) - Integrity Protection of In Situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) Data Fields
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-emu-eap-edhoc (Proposed Standard) - Using the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) with Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman over COSE (EDHOC)
July 23, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-dnsop-structured-dns-error (Proposed Standard) - Structured Error Data for Filtered DNS
July 20, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-cose-cbor-encoded-cert (Proposed Standard) - CBOR Encoded X.509 Certificates (C509 Certificates)
July 19, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-flex-algo-yang (Proposed Standard) - A YANG Data Model for OSPF Application-Specific Link Attributes and Flexible Algorithm
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-lsr-isis-flex-algo-yang (Proposed Standard) - A YANG Data Model for IS-IS Application-Specific Link Attributes and Flexible Algorithm
July 17, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-regext-epp-quic (Proposed Standard) - Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Transport over QUIC
July 14, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-idr-rfc4360-bis (Proposed Standard) - BGP Extended Communities Attribute
July 9, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-iotops-7228bis (Informational) - Terminology for Constrained-Node Networks
July 8, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-tls-mldsa (Informational) - Use of ML-DSA in TLS 1.3
July 7, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-mlkem (Proposed Standard) - Post-quantum Key Exchange with ML-KEM in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-idr-vpn-prefix-orf (Experimental) - VPN Prefix Outbound Route Filter (VPN Prefix ORF) for BGP-4
July 6, 2026
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-idr - Inter-Domain Routing
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-bmwg-network-tester-cfg (Proposed Standard) - A YANG Data Model for Network Tester Management
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-pce-multipath (Proposed Standard) - Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) Extensions for Signaling Multipath Information
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-downgrade-prevention (Proposed Standard) - Downgrade Prevention for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
July 2, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-netmod-immutable-flag (Proposed Standard) - YANG Metadata Annotation for Immutable Flag
IESG has approved the conflict review response conflict-review-irtf-cfrg-cpace - IETF conflict review for draft-irtf-cfrg-cpace
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-sidrops-rpki-ccr (Proposed Standard) - A Profile for Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Canonical Cache Representation (CCR)
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-dispatch - Dispatch
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-regext - Registration Protocols Extensions
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-tvr-requirements (Informational) - Time-Variant Routing (TVR) Requirements
June 29, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-scitt-scrapi (Proposed Standard) - Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency, and Trust (SCITT) Reference APIs
June 24, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-httpapi-digest-fields-problem-types (Proposed Standard) - HTTP Problem Types for Digest Fields
June 22, 2026
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-fann - Fast Network Notifications
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-httpbis-unencoded-digest (Proposed Standard) - HTTP Unencoded Digest
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-sidrops-avoid-rpki-state-in-bgp (Best Current Practice) - Guidance to Avoid Carrying RPKI Validation States in BGP Path Attributes
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-sidrops-rpki-ta-tiebreaker (Proposed Standard) - Tiebreaking Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Trust Anchors
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-rtgwg-vrrp-rfc8347bis (Proposed Standard) - A YANG Data Model for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-oauth-identity-chaining (Proposed Standard) - OAuth Identity and Authorization Chaining Across Domains
June 18, 2026
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-onsen - Operationalizing Network & SErvice abstractioNs
IESG has approved the conflict review response conflict-review-irtf-iccrg-ledbat-plus-plus - IETF conflict review for draft-irtf-iccrg-ledbat-plus-plus
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem (Proposed Standard) - Post-quantum hybrid ECDHE-MLKEM Key Agreement for TLSv1.3
June 17, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-tvr-schedule-yang (Proposed Standard) - A YANG Data Model for Scheduled Attributes
June 16, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-stir-certificates-ocsp (Proposed Standard) - OCSP Usage for Secure Telephone Identity Certificates
June 12, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-mpls-mna-nrp-selector (Proposed Standard) - MPLS Network Actions for Network Resource Partition Selector
June 8, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-idr-nhc (Proposed Standard) - BGP Next Hop Dependent Characteristics Attribute
June 5, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-httpapi-privacy (Best Current Practice) - Protecting Credentials with HTTP APIs
June 4, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-6man-snac-router-ra-flag (Proposed Standard) - SNAC Router Flag in ICMPv6 Router Advertisement Messages
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-oauth-status-list (Proposed Standard) - Token Status List (TSL)
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-oauth - Web Authorization Protocol
June 2, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-bess-bgp-sdwan-usage (Informational) - BGP Usage for SD-WAN Overlay Networks
June 1, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-savnet-intra-domain-problem-statement (Informational) - Problem Statement, Gap Analysis, and Requirements for Intra-domain Source Address Validation
May 27, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-idr-flowspec-redirect-ip (Proposed Standard) - BGP Flow-Spec Redirect-to-IP Action
May 26, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-6man-sidlist-clarification (Proposed Standard) - Clarifying SRv6 SID List Processing
May 22, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-dnsop-ds-automation (Best Current Practice) - Operational Recommendations for DNSSEC Delegation Signer (DS) Automation
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-lamps-cms-composite-sigs (Proposed Standard) - Composite Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA) for use in Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
May 21, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-regext-rdap-ttl-extension (Proposed Standard) - RDAP Extension for DNS Time-To-Live (TTL Values)
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-teas-rfc8776-update (Proposed Standard) - Common YANG Data Types for Traffic Engineering
May 18, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-ippm-qoo (Informational) - Quality of Outcome (QoO)
May 8, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-mailmaint-expires (Proposed Standard) - Updated Use of the Expires Message Header Field
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-intarea-proxy-config (Proposed Standard) - Communicating Proxy Configurations in Provisioning Domains
May 7, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-cellar-tags (Proposed Standard) - Matroska Media Container Tag Specifications
May 4, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-anima-brski-prm (Proposed Standard) - BRSKI with Pledge in Responder Mode (BRSKI-PRM)
IESG has approved the document draft-barnes-sframe-iana-256 (Proposed Standard) - Updates to SFrame Cipher Suites Registry
May 2, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-tsvwg-udp-ecn (Informational) - Configuring UDP Sockets for ECN for Common Platforms
April 30, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-oauth-rfc7523bis (Proposed Standard) - Updates to OAuth 2.0 JSON Web Token (JWT) Client Authentication and Assertion-Based Authorization Grants
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-jsonschema - JSON Schema
April 24, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-mboned-amt-yang (Proposed Standard) - A YANG Data Model for Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT)
April 23, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-calext-jscontact-profiles (Proposed Standard) - Protocol-Specific Profiles for JSContact
April 22, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-lamps-pq-composite-sigs (Proposed Standard) - Composite Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA) for use in X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-grow-nrtm-v4 (Proposed Standard) - Near Real Time Mirroring (NRTM) version 4
April 21, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-netconf-adaptive-subscription (Experimental) - Adaptive Subscription to YANG Notifications
April 16, 2026
IESG has approved the conflict review response conflict-review-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis - IETF conflict review for draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis
IESG has approved the conflict review response conflict-review-pantos-content-steering - IETF conflict review for draft-pantos-content-steering
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-dmarc - Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance
April 13, 2026
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-cats-framework (Informational) - A Framework for Computing-Aware Traffic Steering (CATS)
April 3, 2026
IESG has approved the charter charter-ietf-ccamp - Common Control and Measurement Plane
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-opsawg-pcaplinktype (Informational) - Link-Layer Types for PCAP-related Capture File Formats
IESG has approved the document draft-ietf-opsawg-ucl-acl (Proposed Standard) - A YANG Data Model and RADIUS Extension for Policy-Based Network Access Control