Re: RFC 9985 on Optimizing Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Authentication

Congratulations to everyone. For some, it is their first RFC.

> On Jun 19, 2026, at 1:45 PM, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org wrote:
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> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
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>        RFC 9985
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>        Title:      Optimizing Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Authentication
>        Author:     M. Jethanandani,
>                    A. Mishra,
>                    J. Haas,
>                    A. Saxena,
>                    M. Bhatia
>        Status:     Experimental
>        Stream:     IETF
>        Date:       June 2026
>        Mailbox:    mjethanandani@gmail.com,
>                    mishra.ashesh@outlook.com,
>                    jhaas@pfrc.org,
>                    ankurpsaxena@gmail.com,
>                    manav@ionosnetworks.com
>        Pages:      20
> 
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>        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-36
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>        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9985
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>        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9985
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> This document describes an experimental optimization to Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Authentication. This optimization enables BFD to scale better when there is a desire to use authentication where applying the same authentication mechanism to every BFD Control Packet may adversely impact performance. This optimization partitions BFD Authentication into a more computationally intensive (MCI) mechanism that is applied to BFD significant changes and a less computationally intensive (LCI) mechanism that is applied to the majority of BFD Control Packets.
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> This document is a product of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Working Group of the IETF.
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> EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the
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Mahesh Jethanandani
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