The IESG has received a request from the Multiprotocol Label Switching WG (mpls) to consider the following document: - 'Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data Plane Failures' <draft-ietf-mpls-rfc4379bis-07.txt> as Proposed Standard 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 2016-10-18. 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 describes a simple and efficient mechanism that can be used to detect data plane failures in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Paths (LSPs). There are two parts to this document: information carried in an MPLS "echo request" and "echo reply" for the purposes of fault detection and isolation, and mechanisms for reliably sending the echo reply. This document obsoletes RFCs 4379, 6424, 6829, and 7537. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-rfc4379bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-rfc4379bis/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2826/
