Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-bfd-mib-18

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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:00:05AM -0400, Black, David wrote:
> With respect to the MIB, this concern is a nit, so I'm ok with going ahead without
> making this change ...
> 
> ... However ...
> 
> Your WG chairs and AD should be concerned that this significant flaw in
> BFD version 0 (justifying a "SHOULD NOT use" recommendation) is undocumented.

And also un-RFCed.

It was a "work in progress" that never fully saw the light of full
deployment.  Vendors very quickly moved to version 1 which fixed a critical
issue in the state machine.  If any version 0 survives, it's historical and
likely to be a source of operational agony rather than a useful feature.

-- Jeff





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