Thanks Pete for extensive review. I'll come back to your major issues in a bit.

- Jouni


On Apr 14, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Pete McCann wrote:

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> 
> Document: draft-ietf-netext-redirect-07
> Reviewer: Pete McCann
> Review Date: 2011-04-14
> IETF LC End Date: 2011-04-10 (sorry this is late)
> IESG Telechat date: (unknown)
> 
> Summary: Has Issues
> 
> Major issues:
> 
> Section 5.4:
> You should add a paragraph on the possibility of loops in the
> LMA assignment operation and specify that the MAG must
> take some action to detect and terminate such loops, such
> as a maximum redirection count or tracking the IP addresses
> of the LMAs it has been assigned so far and looking for duplicates.
> 
> Section 6: (Multi-Homing)
> This section makes a major assumption that all of the MN's
> sessions are somehow able to be correlated and that all MAGs
> will direct their tunnels back to the same LMA.  In fact this may
> not be possible when the MN has interfaces on multiple different
> technologies with multiple different network operators and different
> subscriber credentials.  There is no way to enforce that all sessions
> go to the same LMA.  Besides, why is this even necessary?  The
> section does not give a concrete justification for why all the sessions
> need to go through the same LMA.
> 
> Minor issues:
> 
> Section 5.2:
>   Otherwise, the rfLMA MUST act as a normal RFC 5213
>   defined LMA for the MAG.
> The sentence just prior talks about rejecting the PBU with
> a PBA 130 Insufficient resources.  I think you need an extra
> if clause here:
>   If the rfLMA is able to make the assignment to an r2LMA,
>   it returns a PBA with the Redirect extension as defined
>   below.  Otherwise, the rfLMA MUST act as a normal RFC 5213
>   defined LMA for the MAG.
> 
> You need a paragraph at the end of Section 5.2 that describes
> what is about to happen in the document:
>   We next describe two models for the runtime assignment of
>   the LMA.  In Section 5.3, we describe a model where the
>   assignment by the rfLMA and the binding at the r2LMA are
>   created at the same time.  This scenario is optimized for
>   the case where the rfLMA and r2LMA are co-located or
>   integrated by a "proxy MAG" protocol which is described
>   in Section 5.3.4.  In Section 5.4, we describe a mode where
>   the assignment by the rfLMA takes place first, and then the
>   binding at the r2LMA is created by a separate PBU/PBA
>   exchange that happens in a second round-trip.
> When I first read Section 5.3 I thought it was the only model
> being supported and was quite concerned.
> 
> 
> Nits/editorial comments:
> 
> Section 1:
>   reasons, why
> SHOULD BE:
>   reasons why
> 
>   practise
> SHOULD BE:
>   practice
> 
>   in-line what
> SHOULD BE:
>   in-line with what
> 
> Section 3:
>   domain, is not
> SHOULD BE:
>   domain is not
> 
>   assignment, unless
> SHOULD BE:
>   assignment unless
> 
> Section 4.1:
>   There can zero
> SHOULD BE:
>   There can be zero
> 
> Section 5.1:
>   the of the
> SHOULD BE:
>   the
> 
> Section 5.2:
>   a reason or other
> SHOULD BE:
>   some reason
> 
>   The rfLMA MUST only assign the MAG with a new r2LMA that it knows the
>   MAG has a SA with or the MAG and the r2LMA are able to create it
>   dynamically.
> SHOULD BE:
>   The rfLMA MUST only assign the MAG to a new r2LMA with which it knows
>   the MAG has an SA or with which it knows the MAG can establish an SA
>   dynamically.
> 
>   and the r2LMA, are again deployment
> SHOULD BE:
>   and the r2LMA are again deployment
> 
>   transport, if the MAG
> SHOULD BE:
>   transport if the MAG
> 
> Section 5.3.1:
>   Address where the PBU was sent to
> SHOULD BE:
>   Address to which the PBU was sent
> 
> Section 5.3.2:
>   considerations has to taken
> SHOULD BE:
>   considerations have to be taken
> 
>   BUL to correspond the r2LMA address
> SHOULD BE:
>   BUL to contain the r2LMA address
> 
> Section 5.3.4:
>   then the proceeds as mentioned in Section 5.2),
> SHOULD BE:
>   then the PBU is processed as described in Section 5.2,
> 
> Section 5.4.1:
>   Address where the PBU was sent to
> SHOULD BE:
>   Address to which the PBU was sent

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