The IESG has received a request from the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection WG (bfd) to consider the following document: - 'BFD for Multipoint Networks' <draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint-16.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 2018-05-21. 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 extensions to the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol for its use in multipoint and multicast networks. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.