The IESG has received a request from the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links WG (trill) to consider the following document: - 'TRILL: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Support' <draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-bfd-05.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 2012-06-06. 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 specifies use of the BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) protocol in RBridge campuses based on the Rbridge Channel extension to the the TRILL (TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) protocol. BFD is a widely deployed OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance) mechanism in IP and MPLS networks, using UDP and ACH encapsulation respectively. This document specifies the BFD encapsulation over TRILL. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-bfd/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-bfd/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
