Hi Joel,

Thanks for your useful comments!

We will resolve your comments along with other last call comments.

Best regards,
Mach

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From: "Joel M. Halpern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:35 AM
To: "Mary Barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ross Callon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Gen-art] LC review: 
draft-ietf-ccamp-ospf-interas-te-extensions-05.txt

> I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART)
> reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see
> http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html ).
>
> Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments
> you may receive.
>
> Document: draft-ietf-ccamp-ospf-interas-te-extensions-05.txt
> OSPF Extensions in Support of Inter-AS Multiprotocol Label
> Switching (MPLS) and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)
> Traffic Engineering
> Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern
> Review Date: 7-July-2008
> IETF LC End Date: 14-July-2008
> IESG Telechat date: N / A
>
> Summary:  This document appears ready for publication as a Proposed 
> Standard.  When other document editing is being done, the minor comments 
> below should be considered.
>
> Minor Comments:
> 1)  It took me three readings to realize what the last sentence of the 
> Abstract was trying to tell me.  Would it be accurate to replace
>     "No support for flooding TE information from outside the AS is 
> proposed or defined in this document."
> with
>     "No support for flooding information from within one AS to another AS 
> is proposed or defined in this document."

OK.

>     The reason I ask is that what the document is about is flooding 
> information about inter-AS links.  Such links are actually outside of the 
> AS, and so the current phrasing is slightly confusing.
>     As a less informative, but still meaningful last sentence if the above 
> does not work, would adding the following before the existing sentence 
> work for you?:
>     "All information described in this document is originated by the site 
> AS Border Router (ASBR)."
>
> 2) It is probably the correct decision to carry the AS number of neighbors 
> in this mechanism, rather than relying on other protocols which may or may 
> not have such information.  I would suggest adding a note to the 
> introductory material in section 3 making this point.  The text should 
> simply say something like "while some of this information may be available 
> within the AS from other protocols, in order to avoid any dependency on 
> where such protocols are processed, this mechanism carries all the 
> information needed for the required TE operations."

OK, I will add the suggested text into the next revision.

>
> 

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