The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Detecting Inactive Neighbors over OSPF Demand Circuits ' <draft-ietf-ospf-dc-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Open Shortest Path First IGP Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Bill Fenner and Alex Zinin. Technical Summary The Demand Circuit Extension for OSPF (RFC 1793) reduces routing protocol overhead on demand circuit links by eliminating Hello messages over such links. This prevents the link from being kept alive simply by routing protocol traffic, but also prevents the detection of a dead neighbor over a live demand circuit. Detecting Inactive Neighbors over OSPF Demand Circuits introduces a mechanism which probes the liveness of the neighbor on a demand circuit only when other traffic is flowing and/or with packets that do not count towards keeping the link up. In this way, neighbor liveness may be detected while retaining the on-demand nature of the circuit. Working Group Summary There was consensus in the OSPF Working Group on this specification. Protocol Quality The protocol was reviewed for the IESG by Bill Fenner. There are two implementations. RFC-Editor Note: In the second paragraph of section 2, please replace the acronym "NBMA" with "Non-Broadcast Multi-Acess (NBMA) links". In the third paragraph of section 2, please replace the acronym "LSDB" with "Link State Database (LSDB)". Please change the title of section 5 to "Deployment Considerations". _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
