Re: FW: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bfd-rfc5884-bis-01.txt

Greg Mirsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rtg-bfd,gmane.ietf.mpls
Message-ID <CA+RyBmXzY_cfp8Ei=cg6gzFF_+R_SpSprSRaCJZf=hH3fGfAtQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Prasad,
thank you for leading this work. Could you please clarify one issue for me.
Is this -01 version off the github? The github link from the datatracker
brought me to the -00 version of the 5884bis draft.

Regards,
Greg

On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 9:54 AM Vengada Prasad Govindan (venggovi)
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello BFD/ MPLS WG members,
> Based on the discussions of the Vienna meeting, I have added contents to
> the document below. Please review the same and share comments/ suggestions.
> Implementation reports are welcome through email, so we can progress the
> draft to WGLC. I plan to add implementation reports in the next revision.
> Thanks
> Prasad
>
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> Subject: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bfd-rfc5884-bis-01.txt
>
> Internet-Draft draft-ietf-bfd-rfc5884-bis-01.txt is now available. It is a
> work item of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) WG of the IETF.
>
>    Title:   Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for MPLS Label
> Switched Paths (LSPs)
>    Authors: Rahul Aggarwal
>             Kireeti Kompella
>             Thomas D. Nadeau
>             George Swallow
>             Vengada Prasad Govindan
>             Kalyani Rajaraman
>             Gregory Mirsky
>             Sam Aldrin
>    Name:    draft-ietf-bfd-rfc5884-bis-01.txt
>    Pages:   19
>    Dates:   2026-08-15
>
> Abstract:
>
>    One desirable application of Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
>    is to detect a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched
>    Path (LSP) data plane failure.  LSP Ping is an existing mechanism for
>    detecting MPLS data plane failures and for verifying the MPLS LSP
>    data plane against the control plane.  BFD can be used for the
>    former, but not for the latter.  However, the control plane
>    processing required for BFD Control packets is relatively smaller
>    than the processing required for LSP Ping messages.  A combination of
>    LSP Ping and BFD can be used to provide faster data plane failure
>    detection and/or make it possible to provide such detection on a
>    greater number of LSPs.  This document describes the applicability of
>    BFD in relation to LSP Ping for this application.  It also describes
>    procedures for using BFD in this environment.  This document
>    obsoletes RFC5884 and RFC7726.
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-rfc5884-bis/
>
> There is also an HTML version available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-bfd-rfc5884-bis-01.html
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-bfd-rfc5884-bis-01
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
> rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
>
>
>
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