Hi, > > 6) 'Rick Taylor's "Data Item Containers"' is only mentioned in the > > Acknowledgments sections of two of the four documents in this group > > (draft-ietf-manet-dlep-traffic-classification and > > draft-ietf-manet-dlep-da-credit-extension). Would you like to add the > > applicable sentence to the Acknowledgments sections of > > draft-ietf-manet-dlep-credit-flow-control and > > draft-ietf-manet-dlep-ether-credit-extension as well? > > Yes, I think it would be reasonable and consistant to add that sentence to > the Acknowledgements sections of the other two drafts. They all mention > Data Items.
Here I have to disagree with my esteemed co-chair. Note that I am not an author on any of these documents, so consider the following as no more than an opinion. I would move in the opposite direction and keep the acknowledgment of Rick Taylor as "the father of Sub-Data Items" *only* in draft-ietf-manet-traffic-classification. It is not my intention to diminish in any way the numerous and important contributions of Rick Taylor to the cluster of credit-based flow control I-Ds, DLEP as a whole or the MANET WG in general, but the mention of "Data Item Containers" as a predecessor of "Sub-Data Items" only makes sense in draft-ietf-manet-dlep-traffic-classification as this is the only document in the cluster to actually specify Sub-Data Items. I believe the acknowledgment of Rick Taylor in draft-ietf-manet-dlep-da-credit-extension is there for "hysterical raisins", i.e., as a left-over from the earliest versions of this draft which included the Traffic Classification Data Item and its Sub-Data Items before these were moved elsewhere in version -05. See also the Acknowledgment section of RFC 8651. (As an aside: I don't like "Sub-Data Item" as a term. I would have preferred "Data Item Sub-item" or perhaps "Data Sub-item" or "Data Item Sub-TLV". It is way too late to make any such change, however, because RFC 8651 has set a precedent). Thanks, Ronald
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