Hi Éric,

On 5/20/26 13:59, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) wrote:
Thanks for the prompt reply and some explanations. I appreciate that you took 
time to reply to a non-blocking ballot 😉

I would hope that's the normal way of things!

If you are at RIPE-92, then let's shake hand.

Unfortunately, I'm not (was there only at OARC + Monday). Hand shooken 
virtually!

Else, see below for EV>

Thanks. I understand that no further action is required based on your response; 
pls yell otherwise.

Best,
Peter


*From: *Peter Thomassen <[email protected]>
*Date: *Wednesday, 20 May 2026 at 12:41
*To: *Eric Vyncke (evyncke) <[email protected]>; The IESG <[email protected]>
*Cc: *[email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; 
[email protected] <[email protected]>; 
[email protected] <[email protected]>
*Subject: *Re: [DNSOP] Éric Vyncke's No Objection on 
draft-ietf-dnsop-ds-automation-08: (with COMMENT)

Hi Éric,

Thank you for your review!

On 5/20/26 09:18, Éric Vyncke via Datatracker wrote:
 > ## COMMENTS (non-blocking)
 >
 > ### Andy's DISCUSS
 >
 > I second Andy Newton's DISCUSS point about the use of `SHOULD` vs. `MUST`. 
The
 > sentence in section 3 is not enough IMHO `However, not following any
 > requirements designated with the "SHOULD" key word will generally lead to
 > undesirable effects of ambiguity and interoperability issues.`

Andy has proposed improved wording: 
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/X2bmBcl8Bx6sBRts8fc_U5mKxdE/ 
<https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/X2bmBcl8Bx6sBRts8fc_U5mKxdE/> 
Unless I hear back, I'll assume you're OK with that.

EV> I will indeed trust Andy's text

 > The use of BCP14 is also questionable as it is not really about 
interoperation.
 > E.g., section 4.2.2 contains `The reduction should be in effect at least for 
a
 > couple of days` still providing guidance to the operators without the use of
 > BCP14. Same for section 5.2, which has no BCP14 and still useful.

The reason for this is as follows: Sections *.1 are the recommendations 
sections and sections *.2 contain analysis and rationale. Sections *.1 are 
compiled verbatim into Appendix A so you can find all the recommendations 
relevant for DS automation interoperability by just look at the Appendix, as a 
handy implementation reference.

EV> thanks for the explanation, and, BTW, my point was more about removing 
BCP14 from S 1.* and not to add BCP14 in section 2.* ;-)

The recommendations sections therefore contain the distilled core of the recommendations. 
The particular case you quote ("The reduction should be in effect at least for a 
couple of days") is a very qualitative statement, and in my view not an 
interoperability statement that would really add to what the corresponding recommendation 
4.1.2 says; it rather provides additional context.

In case this doesn't clarify the issue, feel free to re-raise and we can see 
together what to do about it.

 > See also next issue.
 >
 > ### BCP status
 >
 > Linked to Andy's DISCUSS, whether this document is BCP or 'informational' is
 > also another question. Some BCP-like RFC (e.g., RFC 9099) are informational 
and
 > do not rely on BCP14, only plain English "should".

I don't see Andy raising a question about the document status.

EV> Andy didn't indeed, I was simply linking this point to the previous one

Roman was concerned; we've attempted to address that (pending his feedback) by 
ensuring that defining recommendations are MUST, not SHOULD (which indeed was 
an error).

EV> this will be a big improvement

For extra context on the BCP status, please see the shepherd write-up.

EV> this is the part were we disagree, this set of useful recommendations would 
better fit an informational RFC. Anyway, this was not blocking.
Thanks,
Peter

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