On May 8, 2026, at 4:25 AM, Oliver Gasser <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi all,
On 5/6/26 10:38 PM, [email protected] wrote:
2) <!--[rfced] Please clarify the antecedent of "this":
Original:
In all places Carrier-Grade NAT or CGN is used in this document, this
applies to proxies as well.
-->
Either of the fixes proposed by Russ and Randy read well to me.
3) <!--[rfced] We had a few questions about the following text:
Original:
Prefix length files can contain sub-prefixes entries of a parent
prefix, which needs to be taken into account when processing these
files.
a) Please confirm the use of the plural "sub-prefixes".
Perhaps:
Prefix length files can contain sub-prefix entries of a parent
prefix,..
b) Might this sentence be rephrased as:
Perhaps:
Prefix length files can contain sub-prefix entries of a parent prefix; this
needs to be taken into account when processing these files.
-->
Option b) reads better to me.
7) <!-- [rfced] Regarding reference entries [INET6NUM] and [INETNUM]:
The original URLs for [INET6NUM] and [INETNUM] point to a page with an
"Sorry, we can't seem to find the page you're looking for" error
message.
We found the following URL that seems to contain the information from
the original URLs:
https://docs.db.ripe.net/RPSL-Object-Types/Descriptions-of-Primary-Objects
Is this the appropriate URL for these references?
-->
Yes, that's the appropriate URL. Given that the URL contains descriptions for
both the intetnum: and inetnum6: DB class, I suggest to update the text as
follows:
Original:
The reader may find [INETNUM] and [INET6NUM] informative, and certainly more
verbose, descriptions of the inetnum: database classes.
New:
The reader may find [DBOBJECTS] informative, and certainly more verbose,
descriptions of the inetnum: and inet6num: database classes.
[DBOBJECTS] should then replace [INET6NUM] and [INETNUM] in the references.
8) <!-- [rfced] Regarding reference entry [PREFIXLEN-FINDER:] Please review.
References to GitHub
repositories require a commit hash (see:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/styleguide/part2/#ref_repo). The original
date for this reference - June 2021 - does not appear in this
repositories commit history
(https://github.com/massimocandela/prefixlen-finder/commits/main/). May
we update this reference to use the most recent commit date and commit
hash?
Current:
[PREFIXLEN-FINDER]
"prefixlen-finder", June 2021,
<https://github.com/massimocandela/prefixlen-finder>.
Perhaps:
[PREFIXLEN-FINDER]
"prefixlen-finder", commit fa70e6b, 3 June 2025,
<https://github.com/massimocandela/prefixlen-finder>.
-->
10) <!--[rfced] We had the following questions/comments related to terminology
used throughout the document:
a) we have used the hyphenated end-site throughout; please let us know any
objections.
-->
Fine by me as well.
Cheers,
Oliver
Thank you.
Megan Ferguson
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RFC9977 (draft-ietf-opsawg-prefix-lengths-14)
Title : Publishing End-Site Prefix Lengths
Author(s) : O. Gasser, R. Bush, M. Candela, R. Housley
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