Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (bfd)

WG Name Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
Acronym bfd
Area Routing Area (rtg)
State Active
Charter charter-ietf-bfd-08 Approved
Status update Show Changed 2019-03-19
Document dependencies
Additional resources Issue tracker, Working group wiki
Zulip Stream
Personnel Chairs Jeffrey Haas, Reshad Rahman
Area Director John Scudder
Tech Advisors Dave Katz, David Ward
Mailing list Address rtg-bfd@ietf.org
To subscribe https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rtg-bfd
Archive https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/rtg-bfd/
Chat Room address https://zulip.ietf.org/#narrow/stream/bfd

Charter for Working Group

  • Define a mechanism to perform single-ended path (i.e. continuity)
    verification based on the BFD specification. Allow such a mechanism to
    work both proactively and on-demand, without prominent initial delay.
    Allow the mechanism to maintain multiple sessions to a target entity and
    between the same pair of network entities. In doing this work, the WG
    will work closely with at least the following other WGs: ISIS, OSPF,
    SPRING.

    • The working group will maintain a relationship with the MPLS working group.

    Milestones

    Date Milestone Associated documents
    Jan 2015 Submit the generic keying based cryptographic authentication mechanism to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Jan 2015 Submit the cryptographic authentication procedures for BFD to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard

    Done milestones

    Date Milestone Associated documents
    Done Submit BFD for VxLAN to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit a BFD Yang module to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit the the document on BFD point-to-multipoint support to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit the BFD Seamless IP draft to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit the BFD Seamless Base draft to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit the BFD Common Intervals document to the IESG to be considered as an Informational RFC
    Done Submit the BFD Seamless Use Case document to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit the BFD over LAG mechanism to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit the BFD MIB to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit BFD encapsulation and usage profile for multi-hop IPv4 and IPv6 adjacencies to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit BFD encapsulation and usage profile for single-hop IPv4 and IPv6 adjacencies to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit BFD encapsulation and usage profile for MPLS LSPs to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard
    Done Submit the base protocol specification to the IESG to be considered as a Proposed Standard