Hi Nobo,
Thanks for the pointer. We will consider referring to this document in the next 
version.

Best Regards,
Cathy


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nobo Akiya (nobo) [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 6:01 AM
> To: Zhouqian (Cathy); [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Mail regarding draft-tsou-softwire-bfd-ds-lite
> 
> Hi Cathy,
> 
> Thanks for replies on both of my questions. Your answers align exactly with my
> understanding of the proposed.
> 
> There's a new work brewing in the BFD WG: S-BFD. That might fit nicely to your
> needs: single-sided continuity check (from B4) where AFTR can remain
> stateless (no need to configure BFD sessions on AFTR for each B4).
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-akiya-bfd-seamless-base/
> 
> -Nobo
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Zhouqian (Cathy) [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 5:30 AM
> > To: Nobo Akiya (nobo); [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: Mail regarding draft-tsou-softwire-bfd-ds-lite
> >
> > Hi Nobo,
> > Sorry for late reply. Please see inline.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Cathy
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Softwires [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > > Nobo Akiya
> > > (nobo)
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 9:56 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Cc: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [Softwires] Mail regarding draft-tsou-softwire-bfd-ds-lite
> > >
> > > Hi Authors,
> > >
> > > Couple of questions around proposed the BFD solution.
> > >
> > > 1. Is the goal for B4 to detect [lack of] reachability to AFTR? Or
> > > does the goal include AFTR to keep state of which B4s are *speaking to 
> > > it*?
> >
> >
> > It depends on specific technology, e.g., if PCP is used, AFTR does not
> > keep the state of which B4s it is speaking to .
> > But if some bidirectional technology is used, e.g., BFD, AFTR will
> > keep the state.
> > >
> > > 2. It's fairly clear how BFD session can be instantiated/maintained
> > > on
> > > B4 (to AFTR). However, I'm not clear on how BFD sessions are
> > > instantiated/maintained on AFTR (to B4s). Is there some sort of
> > > automatic mechanism, or is this configured?
> > BFD sessions could be sent from AFTR only after B4 firstly initiated
> > the session. So the answer is that this is configured.
> > >
> > > -Nobo
> > >
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