Definitions of Textual Conventions (TCs) for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Management

This document defines two MIB modules that contain Textual Conventions for Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocols. These Textual Conventions should be imported by MIB modules that manage BFD protocols. Note that names of Textual Conventions defined in this document are prefixed with either "Bfd" or "IANA" to make it obvious to readers that some are specific to BFD modules, whereas others are IANA maintained. For an introduction to the concepts of BFD, see , , , , and .

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119 .

For a detailed overview of the documents that describe the current Internet-Standard Management Framework, please refer to section 7 of RFC 3410 . Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. MIB objects are generally accessed through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the Structure of Management Information (SMI). This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2, which is described in STD 58, RFC 2578 , STD 58, RFC 2579 and STD 58, RFC 2580 .

This MIB module makes references to the following documents: , , , , , , and .

This module does not define any management objects. Instead, it defines a set of textual conventions which may be used by other BFD MIB modules to define management objects. Meaningful security considerations can only be written in the MIB modules that define management objects. This document has therefore no impact on the security of the Internet.

This document provides the base definition of the IANA-BFD-TC-STD-MIB module. This MIB module is under the direct control of IANA. See for the initial contents. See the most updated version of this MIB at <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ianabfdtcstd-mib>. Assignments of IANA-BFD-TC-STD-MIB are via IETF Review . This MIB makes reference to the following documents: , , , and , , and . IANA assigned an OID to the BFD-TC-STD-MIB module specified in this document as { mib-2 223 }. IANA assigned an OID to the IANA-BFD-TC-STD-MIB module specified in this document as { mib-2 224 }.

The authors would like to thank Adrian Farrel and Jeffrey Haas for performing thorough reviews and providing a number of suggestions. The authors would also like to thank David Ward and Christer Holmberg for their comments and suggestions.