Document Action: 'BFD Stability' to Experimental RFC (draft-ietf-bfd-stability-21.txt)

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Wed, 12 November 2025 16:47 UTC

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Subject: Document Action: 'BFD Stability' to Experimental RFC (draft-ietf-bfd-stability-21.txt)
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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'BFD Stability'
  (draft-ietf-bfd-stability-21.txt) as Experimental RFC

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

The IESG contact persons are Gunter Van de Velde, Jim Guichard and Ketan
Talaulikar.

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




Technical Summary

   This document describes extensions to the Bidirectional Forwarding
   Detection (BFD) protocol to measure BFD stability.  Specifically, it
   describes a mechanism for the detection of BFD packet loss.

Working Group Summary

   The WG consensus represents the strong consensus of a few 
   individuals. The document got WG attention during the initial
   phase of progression through the WG but then the engagement
   died down as there was not much active implementation interest.
   Thereafter, it was picked up for WGLC where it received some 
   further reviews and support for publication as part of the
   set of 3 related documents that extend BFD authentication.
   There were no controversies or threat of appeals.

Document Quality

   There are no known implementations. The work started as 
   Proposed Standard and then was the track was changed by the
   WG to Experimental as the WG believes implementation 
   experience was required to ensure maturity as a Proposed 
   Standard. The document has undergone review from YANG doctors, 
   as well as early directorate reviews from RTG, SEC and OPS areas.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Reshad Rahman. The
   Responsible Area Director is Ketan Talaulikar.

Document Action: 'BFD Stability' to Experimental … The IESG