{
  "number": 9978,
  "title": "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Stability",
  "authors": [
    "A. Mishra",
    "M. Jethanandani",
    "A. Saxena",
    "S. Pallagatti",
    "M. Chen"
  ],
  "published": "2026-06",
  "status": "Experimental",
  "stream": "IETF",
  "area": "rtg",
  "working_group": "bfd",
  "pages": 19,
  "formats": [
    "HTML",
    "TXT",
    "PDF",
    "XML"
  ],
  "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.",
  "draft": "draft-ietf-bfd-stability-21",
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC9978",
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://rfc.dk/rfc9978/",
    "text": "https://rfc.dk/rfc9978.txt",
    "rfc_editor": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9978",
    "datatracker": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9978/"
  },
  "text_modified": "2026-06-29T22:54:44.730161905Z"
}