The IESG has approved the following document: - 'BFD for Multipoint Networks' (draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint-19.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Deborah Brungard and Martin Vigoureux. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint/ Technical Summary This document describes extensions to the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol for its use in multipoint and multicast networks. Working Group Summary The document was discussed multiple times with participation from multiple members of the BFD WG. Most of the discussions took place in 2014/2015 when most of the work occurred, but there have been some recent discussions in 2017/18. The document has been reviewed multiple times on the BFD WG mailing list. Document Quality There is one known implementation Personnel Reshad Rahman is the document shepherd, BFD WG co-chair Martin Vigoureux is the Responsible AD.