[c-nsp] What ever happened to... MARP (Multi-Access Reachabil ity Protocol)

[Ong Beng Hui]

Hi,

It seems to be that BFD is more suitable for a point-to-point
type of media, where MARP is more suitable to multipoint, broadcast
media ?

It will be nice if BFD can be extended to a multipoint media
(Frame Relay) or broadcast (Ethernet).

Please advise, or if I am missing something. Thanks.

Carlson Per wrote:
>>Last draft appeared to be 
>>
>>http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-retana-marp-02.txt
>>
>>which expired Sept 2003
> 
> 
> There is an alternate protocol, BFD, which achieves the same thing:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-katz-ward-bfd-02.txt
> 
> It's dated May 2004, and won't expire until November.
> 
> I suspect BFD has 'won' over MARP, based on the number of other I-D's 
> which uses BFD as a foundation, e.g.:
> 
> draft-radoaca-l2vpn-bfd-inband-oam-00.txt
> draft-ietf-bfd-mpls-00.txt