BFD Encapsulated in Large Packets
draft-ietf-bfd-large-packets-16

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'BFD Encapsulated in Large Packets' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-bfd-large-packets-13.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'BFD Encapsulated in Large Packets'
  (draft-ietf-bfd-large-packets-13.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Gunter Van de Velde, Jim Guichard, Éric Vyncke
and John Scudder.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-large-packets/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   The Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol is commonly
   used to verify connectivity between two systems.  BFD packets are
   typically very small.  It is desirable in some circumstances to know
   that not only is the path between two systems reachable, but also
   that it is capable of carrying a payload of a particular size.  This
   document specifies how to implement such a mechanism using BFD in
   Asynchronous mode.

   YANG modules for managing this mechanism are also defined in this
   document.  These YANG modules augment the existing BFD YANG modules
   defined in RFC 9314.  The YANG modules in this document conform to
   the Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA) (RFC 8342).

Working Group Summary

This document reached broad agreement in the BFD WG.
There was no controversy.
The only unaddressed feedback was (from Robert Raszuk) that the solution does
not work well with ECMP. This is not specific to this document but is a general
issue with BFD multi-hop. This document doesn't change the fundamentals of BFD and while
Robert's observation is correct, this document follows what is already done in
BFD multi-hop.

Document Quality

YANG doctors made a review and their comment was addressed in -14.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Reshad Rahman. The
   Responsible Area Director is Éric Vyncke.

IANA Note

Nothing beside registering the small YANG module.

RFC Editor Note