I also support the adoption as co-author for the same reasons as outlines by 
Greg.

Kind regards,
iLya Varlashkin

> On 14 Sep 2020, at 23:24, Jeff Tantsura <jefftant.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I support the adoption as co-author, for the reasons outlined by Greg.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>> On Sep 14, 2020, 2:17 PM -0700, Greg Mirsky <gregimir...@gmail.com>, wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> I support the adoption of draft-mirsky-spring-bfd by the SPRING WG for the 
>> following reasons:
>> optional control of the reverse path of the BFD session in SR-MPLS 
>> environment;
>> optional reduction of OAM data exchanged between BFD systems by using the 
>> BFD in Demand mode over an SR-MPLS tunnel;
>> ability to monitor p2mp SR policies.
>> I want to highlight the third point. BFD (based on RFC 5880) has solutions 
>> for lightweight mechanisms to detect defects in a p2mp tunnel. The solution 
>> defined in RFC 8562 allows egress BFD nodes to monitor the state of the 
>> head-end and related part of the multicast distribution tree. In some 
>> scenarios, it is desirable for the head-end to be able to know the state of 
>> an egress node and egress's view of the distribution tree. Three options 
>> listed in RFC 8563:
>> head notifications with multicast polling
>> head notifications with composite polling
>> unsolicited notifications
>> The two first options described in RFC 8563 in detail while the third is 
>> very sketchy. This is the option discussed in the draft, pointing to the 
>> solution defined in draft-mirsky-mpls-p2mp-bfd. 
>> 
>> Always welcome your questions.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Greg
>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:08 AM IETF Secretariat 
>>> <ietf-secretariat-re...@ietf.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The SPRING WG has placed draft-mirsky-spring-bfd in state
>>> Call For Adoption By WG Issued (entered by Joel Halpern)
>>> 
>>> The document is available at
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mirsky-spring-bfd/
>>> 
>>> Comment:
>>> The authors have requested (quite some time ago) WG adoption for this
>>> document.  Looking at the archive, there was anot a lot of discussion, and
>>> some concerns.  Rather than try to infer the current state from the old
>>> discussions, the WG Chairs have decided to issue a WG call for adoption.  If
>>> you support this becoming a WG document, please explain on the list.  If you
>>> oppose this becoming a WG document, please explain on the list.  Silence 
>>> does
>>> not mean consent.
>>> 
>>> Yours,
>>> Joel M. Halpern
>>> 
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