The IESG has received a request from the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links WG (trill) to consider the following document: - 'TRILL Support of Point to Multipoint BFD' <draft-ietf-trill-p2mp-bfd-06.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 2018-01-08. 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 Point to multipoint (P2MP) BFD is designed to verify multipoint connectivity. This document specifies the support of P2MP BFD in TRILL. Similar to TRILL point-to-point BFD, BFD Control packets in TRILL P2MP BFD are transmitted using RBridge Channel message. This document updates RFC 7175 and RFC 7177. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-p2mp-bfd/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-p2mp-bfd/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint-active-tail: BFD Multipoint Active Tails. (None - IETF stream)