Hi, Lars,

I will respond to Francis' comments this weekend and address his
comments shortly.

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Fernando





On 12/10/10, Lars Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the review. Fernando, please see if you want to address any of
> these in your working copy. (But don't post a new revision until after the
> document has been discussed by the IESG.)
>
> Thanks,
> Lars
>
> On 2010-12-10, at 11:23, Francis Dupont wrote:
>
>> (note: I was a bit late to send the review so I updated it to the new
>> version which was published between review time and today)
>>
>> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on
>> Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at <
>> http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq>.
>>
>> Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you
>> may receive.
>>
>> Document: draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-timestamps-02.txt
>> Reviewer: Francis Dupont
>> Review Date: 2010-12-06 / 2010-12-10
>> IETF LC End Date: 2010-12-07
>> IESG Telechat date: unknown
>>
>> Summary: Ready with Nits
>>
>> Major issues: None
>>
>> Minor issues: None
>>
>> Nits/editorial comments:
>> - ToC page 2 and 7 page 8: Acknowledgements -> Acknowledgments
>> (BTW the american for "honour" is "honor" too, ask the RFC Editor
>>  to change honour spelling if he wants)
>>
>> - 1 page 3: in
>>  "The Timestamps option, specified in RFC 1323 [RFC1323], allows a TCP
>>   to include a timestamp value in its segments, that can be used to"
>>
>>  perhaps there is a missing word (like "speaker") after "TCP"?
>>
>> - 2 pages 4 and 5: I don't understand where the difference between
>>  these two texts comes from:
>>
>>        "the Sequence Number of the incoming SYN segment
>>         is larger than the last sequence number seen on the previous
>>         incarnation of the connection (for that direction of the data
>>         transfer), then honour the connection request (creating a
>>         connection in the SYN-RECEIVED state)."
>>        "the Sequence Number of the incoming SYN
>>         segment is larger than the last sequence number seen on the
>>         previous incarnation of the connection (for the same direction
>>         of the data transfer), then honour the incoming connection
>>         request (even if the sequence number of the incoming SYN
>>         segment falls within the receive window of the previous
>>         incarnation of the connection)."
>>
>>  i.e., I can easily tell whether the small variations between similar
>>  specifications are just to make reading less boring or are about
>>  real differences.
>>
>> - 2 page 6: KB/s -> kbytes/s or kilobytes/s (at least K (Kelvin) ->
>>  k (kilo) and B -> bytes in letters)
>>
>> - 4 page 7: I guess it is a typo:
>>
>>  "[CPNI-TCP].  [RFC1948] proposes an alternative ISN-generation scheme
>>   which results in monotonically-increasing timestamps across
>>                                             ^^^^^^^^^^ ISNs
>>  connections that are not easily-predictable by an off-path attacker."
>>
>> - 8.2 page 9 [INFOCOM-99] and [Silbersack]]: ' .' -> '.'
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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