Re: WGLC for draft-ietf-bfd-unaffiliated-echo (ending 7 April, 2023)

[Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]>]

Note that the draft is currently expired and will be refreshed when the IETF 116 restrictions permit that to happen.

-- Jeff


> On Mar 21, 2023, at 12:02 PM, Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Working Group,
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-unaffiliated-echo/05/
> 
> The authors of draft-ietf-bfd-unaffiliated-echo have requested WGLC.
> 
> The draft, in my opinion, is in fairly good shape.  However, since it
> functions via looping packets back to itself and trying to exercise the
> normal RFC 5880 state machine behaviors to a large extent, the draft could
> use very high scrutiny for several matters:
> 
> - Does the state machine behave appropriately at all stages?
> - Are the descriptions of the values of the BFD fields clear in all cases?
> 
> Please supply the authors and the Working Group with your feedback.
> 
> The intended finish date for this WGLC is 7 April, 2023.  This is one week
> after the end of IETF 116.
> 
> Note that Reshad is an author on the draft, so I'll be handling the full set
> of review and shepherding work.
> 
> -- Jeff