MPLS WG L. Andersson Internet-Draft Bronze Dragon Consulting Updates: 8029 (if approved) M. Chen Intended status: Informational Huawei Technologies Expires: 24 May 2025 C. Pignataro Blue Fern Consulting 20 November 2024 Naming the Protocol specified RFC 8029 draft-andersson-mpls-rfc8029-lsp-ping-naming-01 Abstract RFC 8029 specifies the key MPLS Operation, Administration, and Maintenance protocol, sometimes referred to MPLS Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping, or MPLS LSP Ping. Howerver, the actual name of the protocol have never been explicitly specified or documented. This document corrects that omission. This document updates RFC 8029. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. 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Code Components extracted from this document must include Revised BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Revised BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Protocol Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1. Background RFC 8029 [RFC8029] specifies the basis for the main MPLS Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) protocol. The title of the RFCs is "Detecting Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Data-Plane Failures". The title correctly captures what the protocol does, but not what the protocol is called. RFC 8029 defines two modes for the protocol it specifies, Ping and Traceroute respectively. RFC 8611 [RFC8611] talks about "MPLS Ping" and "MPLS Ping and Traceroute" interchangeably, when referring to RFC 8029. The MPLS Working Group Charter (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/ charter-ietf-mpls/ (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf- mpls/)) talks about "LSP Ping" as one of the MPLS key protocols. Other working groups, e.g. PALS, and BESS have documents citing RFC 8029. However, the name(s) used to reference RFC 8029 are not consistent. 2. Protocol Name The following paragraph is now added to Section 1.1 "Conventions" in RFC 8029 as the second paragraph. The protocol defined in this RFC 80929 [RFC8029] is called "MPLS Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping and Traceroute", AKA MPLS LSP Ping. Andersson, et al. Expires 24 May 2025 [Page 2] Internet-Draft LSP Ping Naming November 2024 Whenever a document refers to either "MPLS Label Switched Path Ping and Traceroute", "MPLS LSP Ping" or "LSP Ping" they refer to the protocol specified in RFC 8029 [RFC8029]. When there is a specific text refering to lsp ping or traceroute, they refer to modes of operation. 3. IANA Considerations This document does not make any IANA requests. Note to the RFC Editor: Please remove this section before publication. 4. Security Considerations This document names the protocol that is specified in RFC 8029, and thus does not introduce an new security risks. 5. References 5.1. Normative References [RFC8029] Kompella, K., Swallow, G., Pignataro, C., Ed., Kumar, N., Aldrin, S., and M. Chen, "Detecting Multiprotocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data-Plane Failures", RFC 8029, DOI 10.17487/RFC8029, March 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8029>. 5.2. Informative References [RFC8611] Akiya, N., Swallow, G., Litkowski, S., Decraene, B., Drake, J., and M. Chen, "Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping and Traceroute Multipath Support for Link Aggregation Group (LAG) Interfaces", RFC 8611, DOI 10.17487/RFC8611, June 2019, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8611>. Authors' Addresses Loa Andersson Bronze Dragon Consulting Email: loa@pi.nu Mach Chen Huawei Technologies Email: mach.chen@huawei.com Andersson, et al. Expires 24 May 2025 [Page 3] Internet-Draft LSP Ping Naming November 2024 Carlos Pignataro Blue Fern Consulting Email: cpignata@gmail.com Andersson, et al. Expires 24 May 2025 [Page 4]