Hi Charlie!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Perkins [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 5:15 PM
> To: Roman Danyliw <[email protected]>; The IESG <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; Samita Chakrabarti
> <[email protected]>; Shwetha Bhandari <[email protected]>; 6lo-
> [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Roman Danyliw's Discuss on draft-ietf-6lo-deadline-time-04:
> (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
> 
> Hello Roman,
> 
> Please see below for some follow-up...
> 
> On 5/16/2019 6:22 AM, Roman Danyliw via Datatracker wrote:
> > Roman Danyliw has entered the following ballot position for
> > draft-ietf-6lo-deadline-time-04: Discuss
> >
> > ...
> >
> > The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here:
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6lo-deadline-time/
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > DISCUSS:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I support Magnus’s DISCUSS #1 (and perhaps we are noting the same
> > thing)
> >
> > The current Security Considerations text needs explicit discussion of
> > the impact of the deadline being manipulated.
> 
> 
> I agree with this.  Please also refer to my response to Magnus's observation
> and DISCUSS.

The new text in -05 addresses my concerns. Thank you for the update.

> 
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > COMMENT:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > (1) I also support Barry’s DISCUSS on the need to discuss what happens to a
> > network where all senders have short deadlines
> 
> I also agree with this as noted in my response to Barry's observation
> and DISCUSS.  We will fashion appropriate text, and my guess is that it
> would go into the Security Considerations.  Do you think that is the
> right place?
>
> >
> > (2) Section 5.  Per the description of the D flag, how would a forwarding
> > device “suspect that a downstream node might find [a packet] useful”?
> 
> I don't have the answer to that question.  I could imagine that
> intermediate devices are configured with traffic descriptors that cause
> a match to the "Forward_IF_D=0" behavior.  We could make a suggestion,
> but then avoid a normative condition for this behavior by specifying
> that the configuration details are out of scope for this document.
> Would that be O.K.?

Makes sense to me.
 
> 
> >
> > (3) Section 6.  Is there normative language about the behavior of
> forwarding
> > entities when encountering the Deadline header in this section?  If not, I’d
> > recommend adding explicit text to that effect.
> 
> This has been discussed in other emails as well.  It is possible to
> mandate that the Deadline header SHOULD NOT cause pre-emption. I think
> such mandates are not enforceable, but would anyway serve as guidance
> for implementation.

I tend to agree.

> 
> >
> > (4) Editorial nits:
> > ** Section 4.  Typo.  s/the the/the/
> 
> 
> Thanks much for your review!

Thanks for the updates!

Roman

> Regards,
> Charlie P.
> 
> 
> >
> >
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