Hi Paul,

Thank you for the review. 

Please see inline. 

Cheers,
Med

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> Probably an easily answered issue, but I am not too familiar with
> ALTO.
> 
>      The string MUST be no more than 32 characters, and it MUST
> NOT contain
>      characters other than [...]
> 
> Are there implementations that already deployed a cost string with
> more than 32
> characters or characters not in this newly imposed set of
> characters?

[Med] No. 

 What
> should happen if that is in use? That is, is this protocol
> modification
> potentially breaking interoperability with older implementations?
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> COMMENT:
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> While no fan of "patch RFCs", thank you for at least putting the
> OLD and NEW
> text in one document, so an implementer and reviewer doesn't have
> to switch
> between documents and get confused about what was read was the old
> doc or new
> doc.
> 
> That said, patching in the text "This document" feels a little
> weird. What RFC
> does "This document" then refer to? Perhaps change "This document
> defines two
> cost modes" to "Two cost modes are defined".

[Med] OK.

> 
>      Future documents that define a new cost mode SHOULD indicate
> 
> I think that SHOULD can be a MUST.

[Med] We don't use MUST here because we do have a default behavior specified in 
the sentence right after: "If not explicitly indicated, the new cost mode 
applies to all cost metrics."

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