This looks like a fine liaison to me. Thanks, Donald =============================== Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) 2386 Panoramic Circle, Apopka, FL 32703 USA d3e...@gmail.com
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 11:46 AM Jeffrey Haas <jh...@pfrc.org> wrote: > > Working Group, > > The chairs are considering the following text for a liaison statement to the > Broadband Forum with regard to draft-ietf-bfd-unaffiliated-echo. > > We'd like your feedback before we send it out. > > -- Jeff > > ------------- > > From group: bfd > From Contact: Jeffrey Haas > To Group: Broadband-forum > To Contacts: (bbf-contacts) > Cc: rtg-bfd@ietf.org, rtg-bfd-cha...@ietf.org, rtg-...@ietf.org > Response Contact: Jeffrey Haas, Reshad Rahman > > Body: > The IETF Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Working Group has begun > work on "Unaffiliated BFD Echo Function". This work is happening in the > Internet-Draft draft-ietf-bfd-unaffiliated-echo.[1] > > The BFD protocol (IETF RFC 5880, etc.) is used as a service in routers and > other IP gateway devices for testing bi-directional connectivity. Such > devices benefit from having BFD as a common interface for monitoring the > status of such connectivity. > > The purpose of this work is to permit an implementation of BFD that supports > Echo functionality to be used with a Internet Protocol host that does not > support the BFD protocol, but is capable of providing the packet loopback > behavior required by the BFD Echo mechanism. > > The BFD Working Group is aware of an overlapping use case addressed by > BBF TR-146. > > We welcome feedback and further dialog regarding this work. > > > [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-unaffiliated-echo/ >
