The IESG has received a request from the Routing Area Working Group WG (rtgwg) to consider the following document: - 'Remote LFA FRR' <draft-ietf-rtgwg-remote-lfa-08.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 2014-12-25. 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 draft describes an extension to the basic IP fast re-route mechanism described in RFC5286, that provides additional backup connectivity for point to point link failures when none can be provided by the basic mechanisms. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtgwg-remote-lfa/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtgwg-remote-lfa/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2009/ http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1770/ http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2071/