And to add to Reshad’s comment, unfortunately we cannot add a node to the model 
as an erratum. It can be added as an augmentation of the model, or a -bis 
version of the draft, both of which requires a draft. Thanks 

> On Oct 17, 2022, at 11:01 AM, Reshad Rahman 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Sasha,
> 
> Apologies for the delay.
> 
> Yes this config knob is not present in RFC9314. I don't think it's something 
> we did not add on purpose, afair it's something we missed. 
> 
> Regards,
> Reshad.
> 
> On Thursday, September 29, 2022, 11:04:41 AM EDT, Alexander Vainshtein 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I have a question/comment about what looks to me a missing attribute in the 
> BFD YANG Data Model defined in RFC 
> 9314<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9314 
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9314>>.
> This standard covers, among many others BFD flavors, the so-called micro-BFD 
> sessions on LAG members defined in RFC 
> 7130<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7130.html 
> <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7130.html>>.
> 
> Section 2.3 of RFC 7130 "Micro-BFD Session Ethernet Details" defines says 
> (the relevant text is highlighted):
> 
>   On Ethernet-based LAG member links, the destination Media Access
>   Control (MAC) is the dedicated multicast MAC address
>   01-00-5E-90-00-01 to be the immediate next hop.  This dedicated MAC
>   address MUST be used for the initial BFD packets of a micro-BFD
>   session when in the Down/AdminDown and Init states.  When a micro-BFD
>   session is changing into the Up state, the first bfd.DetectMult
>   packets in the Up state MUST be sent with the dedicated MAC.  For BFD
>   packets in the Up state following the first bfd.DetectMult packets,
>   the source MAC address from the received BFD packets for the session
>   MAY be used instead of the dedicated MAC.
> 
>   All implementations MUST be able to send and receive BFD packets in
>   Up state using the dedicated MAC address.  Implementations supporting
>   both, sending BFD Up packets with the dedicated and the received MAC,
>   need to offer means to control the behavior.
> 
> The highlighted text suggests to me that the module ietf-bfd-lag should, for 
> each session, contain a Boolean r/w attribute controlling ability of the 
> session to send, after reaching  its UP state and transmitting the first 
> bfd.DetectMult packets in this state with the dedicated (well-known 
> multicast) destination MAC address 01-00-5e-90-00-01, to switch to 
> transmitting packets with the received MAC address. The default value of this 
> attribute should be FALSE (i.e., this ability by default should be disabled).
> 
> Unfortunately, I have not found any such attribute in RFC 9314.
> Did I miss something substantial?
> 
> Regards, and lots of thanks in advance,
> Sasha
> 
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