This reports the holdoff timer, in milliseconds, applied to the west link of this ring, which delays reporting a detected fault up to the RAPS protocol to allow a faster, lower-layer protection mechanism to react first. A holdoff time set too high on a link that also has a lower-layer protection scheme can noticeably slow the ring's failover if that lower-layer mechanism doesn't actually recover the fault, since RAPS won't start its own switchover logic until the holdoff expires. For example, a holdoff of 200 milliseconds might be set on a west link with an underlying SONET/SDH-style protection scheme, giving that faster mechanism 200ms to clear a fault before RAPS considers a ring-level switchover.