I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART)
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Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments
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Document: draft-ietf-mpls-tp-nm-req-05.txt
MPLS TP Network Management Requirements
Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern
Review Date: 25-Sept-2009
IETF LC End Date: 4-Oct-2009
IESG Telechat date: 8-Oct-2009
Summary: This document is probably ready for publication as a Proposed
Standard
Major issues: None
Minor issues:
Is it reasonable for the references in the sentence:
In writing this document, the authors assume the reader is
familiar with references [12] and [15].
to be informational references? One of the definitions of normative I
have seen is "you have to have read that to correctly understand this"
which seems to be what the sentence says.
It is slightly unclear how it is anticipated this document will be used.
If it is expected that the document will be cited in other (solution
or architecture) documents, which are explaining how they meet these
requirements, then there are two loosely related issues:
1) There is some descriptive text which may be intended to also be
providing requirements.
2) The actual requirements are not named or numbered, so it will be
difficult for any other document to say "we provide A-Q, but we do not
provide R for this reason ..."
I understand that it may be too late to actually change this, and that
the intended usage may be such that these two are non-issues, but I
would appreciate clarification.
Nits/editorial comments:
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