WG Last Call for <draft-ietf-ospf-dc-04.txt>

[Acee Lindem <[e-mail]>]

This is a Working Group Last Call for the I-D
"Detecting Inactive Neighbors over OSPF Deamnd Circuits"
<draft-ietf-ospf-dc-04.txt>. This I-D describes a neighbor probing
technique for detecting inactive neighbors on demand circuits [RFC1793].
We are requesting that this protocol specification be labeled a
Proposed Standard.

Please submit comments on the I-D to the authors and/or
[e-mail] by Wednesday, October 30th.

The abstract of the I-D reads as follows:

    OSPF [RFC2328] is a link-state intra-domain routing protocol used in
    IP networks. OSPF behavior over demand circuits is optimized in
    [RFC1793] to minimize the amount of overhead traffic. A part of OSPF
    demand circuit extensions is the Hello suppression mechanism. This
    technique allows a demand circuit to go down when no interesting
    traffic is going through the link. However, it also introduces a
    problem, where it becomes impossible to detect a OSPF-inactive
    neighbor over such a link. This memo addresses the above problem by
    the neighbor probing mechanism.

Thanks,
--
Acee