Internet-Draft draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-31.txt is now available. It is a work item of the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) WG of the IETF.
Title: Optimizing BFD Authentication Authors: Mahesh Jethanandani Ashesh Mishra Ankur Saxena Manav Bhatia Jeffrey Haas Name: draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-31.txt Pages: 22 Dates: 2025-09-04 Abstract: This document describes an experimental optimization to BFD Authentication. It provides a procedure where BFD state transitions require strong authentication and permits the majority of BFD Control Packets to use a less computationally intensive authentication mechanism. This enables BFD to scale better when there is a desire to use strong authentication. The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication/ There is also an HTMLized version available at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-31 A diff from the previous version is available at: https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-bfd-optimizing-authentication-31 Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at: rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts