Re: device discovery BOF (Fwd)

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

Erik, Randy-

 Universal liveness protocol is a different beast, related to fast
 failure detection in routing, not device discovery. If it ever comes
 to the IETF (which isn't the case so far, but I'm trying to see if
 it's possible), RTG would be the logical area to host it in.

-- 
Alex
http://www.psg.com/~zinin/

Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 2:41:03 AM, Erik Nordmark wrote:
>> it was the daves, ward and katz
>> 
>> we are talking the universal liveness protocol, yes?

> I've seen a reference to:
>  - DDP          (draft-marques-ddp-00.txt)
>  - LLDP         (802.1ab)

> The request from Pedro was cc'ed to dward@cisco.com which sounds
> like one of the daves, with a mailing list of device-discovery@puck.nether.net.
>  So even though I haven't seen "universal liveness protocol" it looks
> very similar.

>   Erik