The IESG has received a request from the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection WG (bfd) to consider the following document: - 'Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Use Case' <draft-ietf-bfd-seamless-use-case-04.txt> as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-04-12. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document provides various use cases for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) and various requirements such that extensions could be developed to allow for simplified detection of forwarding failures. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-seamless-use-case/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-seamless-use-case/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
