I owe the commenters in this thread a detailed response in the near future. However, I did want to highlight the underlying motivation the Working Group had to pick up this work.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 05:00:09PM +0800, xiao.m...@zte.com.cn wrote: > As you may have known or not, before this draft was posted, we ever tried > to submit an errata instead of an I-D. However, under the direction of the > responsible AD and WG chairs, we realized that an informational draft > might be the proper way to record our implementation and deployment. And > then, during the adoption poll of this draft, there was rough consensus > that this draft should be adopted as standards track document, so we > changed the intended status from informational to standards track. A core motivation for this work is to provide an IETF standardized profile of what is typically shipped as Broadband Forum (BBF) TR-146. That mechanism, effectively running a BFD-aware system with a system that does NOT implement BFD but able to provide BFD Echo loopback mode. Arguably, this is one step better than running ping and significantly better from a monitoring standpoint since BFD machinery can be leveraged on the side that supports it for creating events. TR-146 wasn't as clearly specified as we tend to like in IETF BFD work, so we're doing a flavor of that here. Prior discussion with our AD of the time suggested that this is targeted toward Standards Track. But like all IETF work, once we've completed the draft, we may consider whether that classification remains correct. -- Jeff
