Ericsson NVIDIA Verizon Inc. This document discusses the applicability of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for multipoint networks to provide Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) with sub-second convergence of the Active router and defines the extension to bootstrap point-to-multipoint BFD session. This draft updates RFC 5798bis [Ed.Note: When the RFC 5798bis is published, change to the assigned new number].