Protocol Action: PPP Link Quality Monitoring to Draft Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Tue, 11 June 1996 19:30 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: PPP Link Quality Monitoring to Draft Standard
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:25:48 -0400
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  The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "PPP Link Quality Monitoring"
  <draft-ietf-pppext-lqm-ds-00.txt> as a Draft Standard. This document is
  the product of the Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions Working Group. The
  IESG contact persons are Frank Kastenholz and Jeffrey Burgan.


Technical Summary

  The LQM protocol provides a method for two PPP peers to evaluate the
  quality of the link between them. The peers periodically exchange
  packets containing statistical information on how much each peer
  transmitted and received. The "other" peer can use this information
  to determine error characteristics of the link.

  The changes to the protocol specification in going from Proposed to
  Draft standard are minor and editorial in nature. This document is an
  update to RFC1333, currently a Proposed Standard.

Working Group Summary

  The protocol is the product of the PPP Extensions working group. It
  is the strong consensus of the working group that this protocol be
  advanced.

  A call to the working group produced reports of at least 4 known,
  interoperable implementations.

Protocol Quality

  The protocol was reviewed for the IESG by Frank Kastenholz.

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