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The protocol has been proposed by employees of Force10, a vendor of (mainly 10GE) L2/L3 switches. It is still unclear whether it will see wider adoption.
Note that there is an unrelated GitHub project called rucarrol/traceflow, also called Stockholm traceroute, which is a pure Python implementation of traceroute with multipath support and browser visualization based on vis.js.
References
- Traceflow, A. Viswanathan, S. Krishnamurthy, V. Zinjuvadia, R. Manur, NANOG 43 presentation, June 2008 (PDF)
- TraceFlow, V. Zinjuvadia, R. Manur, S. Krishnamurthy, A. Viswanathan, February 2008, draft-zinjuvadia-traceflow-00.txt (work in progress)
- Operations and Maintenance Next Generation Requirements, S. Amante, A. Atlas, A. Lange, D. McPherson, February 2008, draft-amante-oam-ng-requirements-01.txt (work in progress)
– Main.SimonLeinen - 2008- 02 Jun 200806-02 – 2020-06-21