David, Thanks for the feedback. I had considered adding such a line to the statement but was wary of the implication of "you must come here to participate". If such is acceptable, I'll add it to the next iteration.
-- Jeff > On Nov 24, 2021, at 6:07 PM, David Sinicrope <david.sinicr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > > One suggestion on the line requesting feedback: We don't really want any SDO > using the liaison process as a substitute for participation in the IETF > process. Some organizations consider a liaison to carry the collective > weight of the organization and expect technical comments in the liaison to > carry the same weight. (vs individual comments). Such is not the case in > IETF. That said, the organization is of course free to provide feedback via > liaison response in whatever form they see fit. > > It would be good to add the following to make it clear that we prefer > comments through the IETF process while still leaving the door open for the > SDO (BBF) to respond as they deem appropriate: > > "Those interested in providing detailed feedback and technical comment on the > draft are encouraged to participate in the development of the draft in the > IETF via the IETF process." > > I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any questions. > > Dave > > > > On 11/24/21 11:46, Jeffrey Haas 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 <mailto:rtg-bfd@ietf.org>, rtg-bfd-cha...@ietf.org >> <mailto:rtg-bfd-cha...@ietf.org>, rtg-...@ietf.org <mailto: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/ >> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-unaffiliated-echo/> >>
