The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Unsolicited BFD for Sessionless Applications' (draft-ietf-bfd-unsolicited-16.txt) as Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jim Guichard, Andrew Alston and John Scudder. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-unsolicited/ Technical Summary This document describes a profile for the Bi-directional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol for "sessionless" applications. This permits a single active side to initiate a BFD session with a passive "unsolicited" side. The unsolicited side does not require per-session configuration. An example of such a session is protecting the reachability of a static route's nexthop by configuring BFD on the static route without requiring the device with the target nexthop to have the other half of the session configured. Working Group Summary This document was considered non-controversial and has been previously deployed in multiple implementations. Since the document includes an extension to the BFD YANG module, publication was delayed until the dependent YANG module was on its way to IETF publication as an RFC. Document Quality There are multiple implementations of this mechanism. Since the BFD YANG module is new (RFC 9127) as of this writeup, there are currently no implementations of the augmentation module contained in this document. Personnel Document Shepherd: Jeffrey Haas, BFD co-chair. Responsible Area Director: John Scudder, Routing. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce