Jamal,

I am OK with all your suggested changes.

Thanks
   Brian Carpenter

On 07/08/2014 23:07, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> Thanks for taking the time to review. Responses inline..
> 
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Brian E Carpenter
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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-forces-protoextension-04.txt
>> Reviewer: Brian Carpenter
>> Review Date: 2014-08-07
>> IETF LC End Date: 2014-08-13
>> IESG Telechat date:
>>
>> Summary:  Almost ready
>> --------
>>
>> Minor issues:
>> -------------
>>
>> "3.  Protocol Update Proposal
>>
>>    This section describes proposals..."
>>
>> Actually, these are not proposals: they are normative updates.
>>
> 
> Updated
> 
>> -------------
>> The Abstract says "This documents updates both RFC 5810 and RFC 7121 
>> semantics..."
>> but this is not repeated in the Introduction, and the text makes no further
>> reference to RFC 7121. The text should state what is updated in RFC 7121.
>>
> 
> Are you requesting to add extra text on top of the intro text
> "... As a result the (FE Protocol Object) FEPO LFB is updated over the
>  definition in [RFC7121]....."
> 
> 
>> -------------
>> In Appendix A of RFC 7121, I find this statement:
>> "The xml has been validated against the schema defined in [RFC5812]."
>>
>> Is that also true of the new version? If so, it should be stated. If not,
>> there could be a problem...
>>
> 
> Thanks for catching that - updated.
> 
>> Nits:
>> -----
>>
>> Abbreviations FE and CE should be expanded when first used.
>>
> 
> Updated the "Definitions" section to introduce those two (since they
> are common terms).
> 
>> -----
>>
>> "3.2.1.  New Codes
>>
>>    EXTENDEDRESULT-TLV Result Value is 32 bits and is a superset of RFC
>>    5810 Result TLV Result Value.  The new version code space is 32 bits
>>    as opposed to the RFC 5810 code size of 8 bits.  The first 8 bit
>>    values are common to both old    "
>>
>> The last sentence is truncated. And do you mean "the first 256 code
>> values are common..."?
>>
> 
> Thanks for catching this. Fixed.
> 
>> -----
>>
>> There are quite a lot of small grammatical errors (missing articles etc.)
>> which I assume will be caught by the RFC Editor. There are also various
>> examples of convoluted phrasing that could surely be shorter and simpler.
>> For example, I found the following sentence in section 2.1 very hard to
>> understand:
>>
>>   "Implementation experience has shown that existing approaches for
>>    retrieving or deleting a sizeable number of table rows is at the
>>    programmatically level (from an application point of view)
>>    unfriendly, tedious, and abusive of both compute and bandwidth
>>    resources."
>>
>> Does this mean
>>
>>    Implementation experience has shown that existing approaches for
>>    retrieving or deleting a sizeable number of table rows are
>>    inefficient.
>>
>> or something more subtle?
>>
> 
> The emphasis was intended to be primarily on the programmatic unfriendliness 
> and
> secondarily on innefficiency. How about:
> 
> ------
>     Implementation experience has shown that existing approaches for
>     retrieving or deleting a sizeable number of table rows to be both
>     programmatically tedious and inefficient on utilization of both compute
>     and wire resources.
> ----
> 
>> -----
>>
>> Is the RFC Editor supposed to remove the "XXX: comment to IANA..." sentences?
>> If so, this should be clearly stated.
> 
> Evangelos brought up this issue as well.
> The text is intended to catch IANA's attention. IANA always calls, and they
> updated text to read "IANA has created .." - I was hoping when they
> call I will ask
> for that text to be removed. Does that sound unreasonable?
> 
> Thanks again for your review Brian.
> 
> cheers,
> jamal
> 

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