Subject: RFC 6428 on Proactive Connectivity Verification, Continuity Check, and Remote Defect Indication for the MPLS Transport Profile

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:13:16 -0800 (PST)

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        RFC 6428

        Title:      Proactive Connectivity Verification, Continuity Check, 
                    and Remote Defect Indication for the 
                    MPLS Transport Profile 
        Author:     D. Allan, Ed.,
                    G. Swallow Ed., J. Drake Ed.
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       November 2011
        Mailbox:    [email-masked], 
                    [email-masked], 
                    [email-masked]
        Pages:      21
        Characters: 44293
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-mpls-tp-cc-cv-rdi-06.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6428.txt

Continuity Check, Proactive Connectivity Verification, and Remote
Defect Indication functionalities are required for MPLS Transport
Profile (MPLS-TP) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM).

Continuity Check monitors a Label Switched Path for any loss of continuity
defect.  Connectivity Verification augments Continuity Check
in order to provide confirmation that the desired source is connected
to the desired sink.  Remote Defect Indication enables an end point to
report, to its associated end point, a fault or defect condition that
it detects on a pseudowire, Label Switched Path, or Section.

This document specifies specific extensions to Bidirectional
Forwarding Detection (BFD) and methods for
proactive Continuity Check, Continuity Verification, and Remote Defect
Indication for MPLS-TP pseudowires, Label Switched Paths, and Sections
using BFD as extended by this memo.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]

This document is a product of the Multiprotocol Label Switching Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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