{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-bfd-stability-21",
  "doc_id": "RFC9978",
  "title": "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Stability",
  "authors": [
    "A. Mishra",
    "M. Jethanandani",
    "A. Saxena",
    "S. Pallagatti",
    "M. Chen"
  ],
  "format": [
    "XML",
    "TEXT",
    "HTML",
    "PDF"
  ],
  "page_count": "19",
  "pub_status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "source": "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection",
  "abstract": "This document describes extensions to the Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol to measure BFD Stability. Specifically, it describes a mechanism for the detection of BFD packet loss.",
  "pub_date": "June 2026",
  "keywords": [],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC9978",
  "errata_url": null
}