Hello,

These are my technical comments on this draft, for the first 32 pages.
Given the length of the document, I do not expect to be able to finish
it by October 28, so I second Brian's request for additional time.

  Bill

1) The definition of "ANI" in Section 2 says that it includes ACP, BRSKI
and GRASP.  The statement of Requirements in Section 4 says:

"ACP4:  The ACP MUST be generic. ... It MUST NOT be tied to a particular
application or transport protocol."

These two statements are in conflict, because the ANI as defined in this
document clearly depends on GRASP.

2) As a specification, Step 4 in Section 5 is terrible.  Step 3
explicitly includes the "for-loop".  Step 4 then shifts to the
perspective of an individual peer relationship, and uses the singular in
the first sentence.  It then shifts again to the plural for the second
sentence.  Suggested text:

"4. For each node in the candidate peer list, it then establishes a
secure tunnel of the negotiated type.  The resulting tunnels are then
placed into the previously set up VRF.  This creates an overlay network
with hop-by-hop tunnels."

3) In Section 6.1.1, in the comment on "routing-subdomain", it says,
<<"rsub" is optional and should only be used when its impacts are
understood.>>  Who must do the understanding?  What is the test for
"understanding"?  Is this a statement that "rsub" should not be used
until the WG has done more work, or until the reader has read this
document 42 times, or ??  For a normative section of this document, this
is remarkably ambiguous.

4) In Section 6.2.3, para 1, line 3, "must" -> "MUST"  (I believe that
this requirement should be normative.)

5) In Section 6.7.2, para 2, line 4, "and not permit" -> "and MUST NOT
permit"  (The implied dependence on the previous "MUST" should be made
explicit.)

6) In Section 6.8.2, para 2, I was puzzled by the statement that the ACP
could exist in the absence of any active ACP neighbors, since the ACP is
only created with the help of a neighbor that is already a member of the
domain.  I then realized that domain membership (and its accompanying
domain certificate) could be established while a neighbor was active,
and then the neighbor could vanish.  I suggest adding some text to make
this sequence of events clear.  Suggestion: "It is created when the node
has a domain certificate, and continues to exist even if all of its
neighbors cease operation."


On 15/10/2017 4:59 AM, Sheng Jiang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
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> 
> This message starts the two-week ANIMA Working Group Last Call to
> advance draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane-12, An Autonomic
> Control Plane (ACP). This document's intended status is Standards Track.
> At present, there is one IPR file against this document, see below link.
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2407/
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> Please send your comments by October 28th, 2017. If you do not feel
> this  document should advance, please state your reasons why.
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> Sheng JIANG is the assigned document shepherd.
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> Regards,
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> Sheng (co-chair, Toerless who as a co-author stayed neutral on the
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