Re: BFD chair response to presentation on draft-mirmin-bfd-extended

[Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]>]

Dave,

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 09:35:12PM +0000, Dave Katz wrote:
> If BFD’s transport semantics are that interesting, someone could take a
> week and whip up a transport that looks rather like BFD but is properly
> suited for the purpose.  That would make all of these issues go away, and
> would provide a common mechanism that could be used more broadly, and
> someone would have an RFC to be proud of.

That's effectively what the discussion needs to be.  And I agree, there's
plumbing like demand and echo that can be gotten rid of.

The adaptive timers are part of the charm that people seem to like, so I
suspect that'd still be a thing people want.  Just not necessarily 3ms
granularity. :-)

> I guess the irony of all of this is that when the BFD WG was formed it was
> expected to be the shortest-lived WG in history.  Now I suspect it’s going
> for a record in the other direction.  ;-)

I still resent Alex Z. and co. for leading me into that trap.

-- Jeff