Hello Jeff, Thank you for your email / liaison. This has been received by the Broadband Forum and should be reviewed during our meetings this week. Please let us know if you need anything else.
Cheers, Lincoln On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 7:51 PM Jeffrey Haas <jh...@pfrc.org> wrote: > Greetings, > > 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. > > 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. > > Regards, > > -- Jeff Haas, Reshad Rahman, IETF BFD Chairs > > [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-unaffiliated-echo/ > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: To unsubscribe from this email list, please forward any > unwanted emails to to...@broadband-forum.org with a request to > unsubscribe. > ***Unsubscribe instructions immediately below this line will not work.*** > --- > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tcchair+unsubscr...@broadband-forum.org. > > -- *Lincoln Lavoie* Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies 21 Madbury Rd., Ste. 100, Durham, NH 03824 lylav...@iol.unh.edu https://www.iol.unh.edu +1-603-674-2755 (m) <https://www.iol.unh.edu>
