Hello Joseph,

Thank you very much for your comments. Please see my reply below.

Best regards,
Remy

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发件人: Joseph Touch via Datatracker [mailto:[email protected]] 
发送时间: 2021年2月20日 9:15
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主题: Tsvart last call review of draft-ietf-6lo-plc-05

Reviewer: Joseph Touch
Review result: Ready with Issues

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The only significant transport issue in this doc is the issue of MTU support.
Secs 3.3 and 4.6 refers to underlying frag/reassembly per RFC4944. First, these 
sections seem redundant; normative requirements should appear in only one 
section if both are retained.
[Remy]Thanks for indicating this redundancy. We will remove the reference of 
RFC4944 in the section 3.3.

More notably, the use of a 16-bit tag in that spec is already known to be 
problematic for IPv4 fragmentation and could cause problems here as well, e.g., 
per RFC4963. This issue should be addressed, notably if there is a reason why a 
16-bit tag is considered sufficient for this use it should be stated or some 
other shim layer should be proposed with a more robust tag (e.g., 32 bits).
[Remy]I think this question has already been discussed when RFC4944 was 
defined. The situation shown in RFC 4963 "a host sending 1500-byte packets with 
a 30-second maximum packet lifetime could send at only about 26 Mbps before 
exceeding 65535 packets per packet lifetime" cannot be reached by the 
constrained PLC networks discussed in this draft. Because the constrained PLC 
networks are used for metering and other IOT use cases, in which the packet is 
not that big, and the data rate is much lower, when compared to the "high data 
rates networks" discussed in RFC4963.

Some minor additional suggestions follow:

The intro refers to “6lo”; this term should be defined before being used. The 
scenarios should include a citation if available. Similarly, LLN should be 
defined. Work that did not receive consensus might be mentioned elsewhere or 
even omitted completely, but seems premature in the intro. Also, “the previous 
work” in the last sentence is ambiguous; it would be useful to refer to the 
RFCs, the draft, or whatever else to which it refers.
[Remy]We will extend the term, add citations to the scenarios in the intro, and 
remove the reference to the work did not receive consensus. The previous work 
refers to the [RFC4944], [RFC6282], [RFC6775] and [RFC8505]. We will update it 
to a more specific description.

Sec 3 includes “Moreover, recently a new …”, which seems redundant; it might be 
just “A new…”. Again, this section (and later ones too) refers to “6lo” as a 
category of sorts, which needs to be defined (and included in the 
acronym/terminology list).
[Remy]We will update it in the next version.



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