Technical Summary
This document specifies use of the Bidirectional Forwarding
Detection (BFD) protocol in RBridge campuses based on the RBridge
Channel extension to the the TRILL protocol. BFD is a simple,
widely deployed OAM mechanism in IP and MPLS networks, using UDP
and ACH encapsulation respectively. This document specifies the BFD
encapsulation over TRILL.
Working Group Summary
There was a clear consensus in favor of the document with the
consensus determination made in late February. There was then some
delay due to fixing various editorial problems and nits, many of
which were discussed on the mailing list during the WG Last Call,
but these have now been fixed.
Document Quality
BFD and TRILL are both widely implemented although there have been
no announced implementations of the BFD encapsulation for TRILL in
this document. During the review period, the addition of some
material to the Security Considerations section was suggested and
adopted. See
http://www.postel.org/pipermail/rbridge/2012-February/004768.htmlhttp://www.postel.org/pipermail/rbridge/2012-February/004819.html
Personnel
Erik Nordmark is the Document Shepherd. Ralph Droms
is the responsible Area Director.
RFC Editor Note
Please replace the citation and reference to RFC 20 with:
[ANSI.X3-4.1986] American National Standards Institute, "Coded
Character Set - 7-bit American Standard Code for
Information Interchange", ANSI X3.4, 1986.